Pakistan T20 World Cup: ‘Babar Azam is nothing’: Former Pakistan captain’s brutal verdict after poor T20 World Cup present | Cricket Information

Pakistan have sealed their place within the Tremendous 8 stage of the T20 World Cup after a snug win over Namibia, turning into the ultimate workforce to qualify. Nonetheless, the victory did little to silence the rising debate round former captain Babar Azam, whose lean run with the bat has as soon as once more come beneath scrutiny.Babar has managed simply 66 runs in three matches and has struggled to make an impression. Through the Namibia recreation, controversy surfaced when he didn’t come out to bat regardless of being padded up for a protracted interval. It additionally appeared that skipper Salman Ali Agha was not totally happy with the decision.

Former Pakistan batter and selector Mohammad Yousuf has now brazenly criticised Babar, revealing that he had earlier beneficial resting the batter throughout his tenure as selector.“I’ve been saying this for 2-3 years that Babar’s approach has gone for a toss. I’ve been listening to that he’s out-of-form, however he isn’t. A participant can solely be out-of-form for 2 to a few collection and he has not scored runs for the previous two-three years. The second I instructed resting Babar, everybody abruptly turned in opposition to me. I needed to resign due to this. He was ultimately dropped a few collection later,” Yousuf mentioned on the ‘How Does It Work?’ podcast.He additional questioned the emphasis positioned on mentality over talent. “The churan of mindset is being bought very wrongly. Till you don’t have the talent, the thoughts can’t do something. Should you don’t have the talent, what is going to the thoughts do?” he added.Yousuf additionally in contrast Babar to legends of a earlier period, putting them on a unique pedestal. “Inzy Bhai and Saeed Bhai’s stage can’t be matched. They’ll’t be matched. They had been very large gamers. Zaheer Abbas…. These 4 gamers had been of various classes and ranges. Babar is nothing in entrance of them.”Regardless of the noise, Pakistan now shift focus to the Tremendous 8 stage, the place they’ve been positioned in Group 2 alongside England cricket workforce, New Zealand cricket workforce and Sri Lanka cricket workforce.

Pakistan Tremendous 8 Fixtures

Pakistan will start their Tremendous 8 marketing campaign in opposition to New Zealand on 21 February in Colombo, adopted by essential clashes in opposition to England and Sri Lanka in Pallekele.