Retired willingly as it was a practice match and wasn't a List A match, which means stats in such matches never add up to your tally. Yeah, it was a belter and Babar had to come because top order didn't use this opportunity well.
In general, these kinds of matches are useless, it's just an upgraded version of the net session because teams are allowed to have 15 men playing squad for every match. There are no caps on bowlers or batters, teams can even field 8-9 pure batters or bowl as much as bowlers, that's why Australians used 8 bowlers and 3 of them were Warner-Smith-Marnus.
Okay, thanks for letting me know. Pakistan already missing Nasim Shah, adding Babar Azam to the injury list will be their big bad luck! That's why I wanted to confirm. About the warm-up matches, I didn't know that fifteen players can be in the playing squad and the team can use any bowler or batter when needed. I noticed this only this week! LOL,
I am wondering how bad a cricket fan I am. Watching cricket since my childhood yet I don't understand many things. Not only me, but I guess many of us don't know many cricket rules.
Well, in limited overs cricket, there are hardly any warm up matches, except when there is some ICC tournament and the ICC are not big on giving tag of List A status as it directly affects the funding because of the DRS etc, that's why DRS was not available for the warm up matches. Although, in Test warm up matches, boards can decide whatever (In this case First Class status) even if there is no DRS.
Babar is fit, he voluntarily retired so that other batters could get a chance to bat.