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Babar Azam, Pakistan’s captain is in new for not good reasons. he came on the critiques radar for questionable captaincy after Pakistan not only lost but whitewashed ( 3-0 ) by Ben Stoke’s English team. The 28 year old, often compared with Team India’s sensation VIRAT KOHLI is ruthlessly criticized by Pakistan’s former leg spinner DANISH KANERIA. On his Youtube Channel, he said
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Danish Kaneria’s Statement
“People should stop comparing Babar Azam to Virat Kohli. The likes of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are very big players. Pakistan have nobody in their team who can be compared to them. If you make them talk, they will be a king. When you ask them to produce results, they’ll be zero,”
He further added “Babar Azam is a big zero as captain. He doesn’t deserve to lead the team. He is not capable of leading the team, especially when it comes to Test cricket. He had a good chance of learning captaincy by looking at Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum during the series. Or, he could have kept his ego aside and asked Sarfaraz Ahmed how to captain,”. He did’t stopped here and clearly said that Babar Azam should refrain himself from playing the longer formats.
Shoaib Akhtar on Babar Azam
In Sep 2022, Another Pakistan veteran bowler and famously known as Rawalpindi express SHOAIB AKHTAR also took upon him. He said Babar Azam is only interested in looking good while playing his shots. SHOAIB AKHTAR also criticize the right hand batsman for his slow Strike Rate in T20s. Babar Azam was also struggling with his form then.
Babar Azam not only struggled with his form but also was pulled into some uncool controversy in this test series. On the Day 2 of third Test Match he was not on field in the first hour, Mohammad Rizwan took over the captaincy and performed his duties. It is said that Babar was having headache but later it was reported that he was unhappy with security personnel questioning him while going out for a dinner.
Babar Azam along with his other team mates Imam Ul Haq and Azhar Aliwere trying to go out for dinner in Clifton to have dinner when the Pakistan captain was questioned by a security guard. As per the protocol, if the players wants to go out of the hotel’s secured premises, they must inform the security in advance, but on this occasion the process was not followed and it ended up into a heated argument between Babar and the security officials. Later, It is said that the guard took allowed to only Babar but not the others, which did not go down well with the Pakistan captain.
Former Pakistani Captain Rashid Latif confirmed the overall issue to a local news channel. He called all this event unfortunate and urged PCB chairman Rameez Raza to interve and sort this out as early as possible
Coming back to the Test Series against England. This is the first ever 3 or more test match series where Pakistan is whitewashed in its history of cricket. Pakistan lost first test by 74 runs, second by 26 runs and last one by 8 wickets. Though Babar Azam failed to impress by his captaincy, he did scored some runs and completed his 1000 runs in 2022. After JOE ROOT (1098, 15 Test), USMAN KHAWAJA (1079, 10 test), JONNY BAIRSTOW (1061, 10 Test), he became the 4th batsman to surpass 1000+ mark this year.
Babar Azam became sixth Pakistani batsman to make 1000+ runs in same calendar year. The other 5 are
- Younis Khan : 2006, 2014
2. Mohammad Yousuf : 2006
3. Inzaman-Ul-Haq : 2000
4. Azhar Ali : 2016
5. Mohsin Khan 1982
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