Babar Azam is a selfish player. People blame weak Karachi team for poor performance of Karachi Kings in PSL. But it's far from truth. You can see how he played for personal gains, scored 50s for stats so that he can boast healthy average and strike rate while the team needed more runs. He basically scored 50 off 40-45-50 balls and never made up for his poor strike rate later. Those who want to argue should just watch PSL games. This poor performance puts immense pressure on other batsmen as they now not only have to score fast but also make up for the poor strike rate of Babar Azam, which gets batsmen out. And then with field, he had always been out of sorts. No innovation and run of the mill decisions. Mediocrity at its very best.
Now During Test series with Australia, he went into score 196 when the team could have won it. Had he shown a bit of intent, we could have chased in Karachi as wicket was in much better shape. Now this defensive and timid mindset is prevailing in the dressing room when the captain itself is behaving like a coward and lacks positivity or intent.
In 3rd test, Pakistan played pathetically. The defensive mindset and body language which resulted in so slow scoring run rate in first innings when we could have score more than 300 during the same overs just with better intent and slightly better aggression. The pitch was damn flat. The decision to stick with selection of Fawad Alam, when Shan Maqsood was available was pathetic. And considering how Babar selects his team, he is the only one to blame.
And in 4th innings, Pakistan under Sarfraz should have gone for the win. I remember against Srilanka when we chased 300 in 50 odd overs. Where is the f intent???
And the negative tactics highlighted by commentators on numerous times by bowling 4th stump leg stump line in first test just to get to the new ball. The writing is on the wall. This guy would rather lose playing defense than playing for win with intent. Test cricket is a patience game. But it doesn't mean you score 180 odd runs off the whole day of cricket on a flat deck. Waiting long enough you will eventually find a ball with your name on it. So intent and positivity has to be there.
And just compare it with Cummins. The sheer courage it took to declare with 350 run target. Had it been Babar, he would have taken the session of 5th day as well.
I really hope Babar takes a leaf out of Cummin's aggressive captaincy. I love Babar for being great with scoring shots but not when it overshadows his negativity, poor captaincy and cowardice. He is the reason we lost this series. The whole PCB is full of such timid oldies who feared Aussies would win the series had they provided more life on the pitch. But with even dead picthes, Aussies handed us our A on platter. We deserved to lose with such negative mindset.
I really hope we can learn but time has proved we never did.
Now During Test series with Australia, he went into score 196 when the team could have won it. Had he shown a bit of intent, we could have chased in Karachi as wicket was in much better shape. Now this defensive and timid mindset is prevailing in the dressing room when the captain itself is behaving like a coward and lacks positivity or intent.
In 3rd test, Pakistan played pathetically. The defensive mindset and body language which resulted in so slow scoring run rate in first innings when we could have score more than 300 during the same overs just with better intent and slightly better aggression. The pitch was damn flat. The decision to stick with selection of Fawad Alam, when Shan Maqsood was available was pathetic. And considering how Babar selects his team, he is the only one to blame.
And in 4th innings, Pakistan under Sarfraz should have gone for the win. I remember against Srilanka when we chased 300 in 50 odd overs. Where is the f intent???
And the negative tactics highlighted by commentators on numerous times by bowling 4th stump leg stump line in first test just to get to the new ball. The writing is on the wall. This guy would rather lose playing defense than playing for win with intent. Test cricket is a patience game. But it doesn't mean you score 180 odd runs off the whole day of cricket on a flat deck. Waiting long enough you will eventually find a ball with your name on it. So intent and positivity has to be there.
And just compare it with Cummins. The sheer courage it took to declare with 350 run target. Had it been Babar, he would have taken the session of 5th day as well.
I really hope Babar takes a leaf out of Cummin's aggressive captaincy. I love Babar for being great with scoring shots but not when it overshadows his negativity, poor captaincy and cowardice. He is the reason we lost this series. The whole PCB is full of such timid oldies who feared Aussies would win the series had they provided more life on the pitch. But with even dead picthes, Aussies handed us our A on platter. We deserved to lose with such negative mindset.
I really hope we can learn but time has proved we never did.
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