For someone, who boasts of a batting average of 57.09 across a whopping 110 ODIs, including 19 tons and 28 half-centuries, it comes as a bit of a surprise that Pakistan captain Babar Azam’s numbers against arch-rivals India aren’t all that impressive.

In seven ODIs so far against the Men in Blue, Babar, 28, has accumulated only 168 runs at a meagre average of 28.00 with not a single hundred or even a fifty to boast of. The brilliant batsman blames those statistics on the fewer number of times the two teams meet these days. “Against India, we only come face-to-face in a World Cup, so there is a big gap [between meetings]. And it’s not that this [poor numbers] is because of any particular [Indian] bowler or anything. I feel that I sometimes get out because of my own mistakes. The idea is to try to make as few mistakes as possible,” he told a packed house match-eve press conference at the Narendra Modi Stadium on Thursday.