Shahzad , imam , Abdullah shafique , abid ali , sharjeel , haider ali etc have all been given consistent chances over various three formats
Saim was even handed a test debut.
So this myth that babar won't Try players.
Various players have been tried in the middle order umar akmal , asif alis , shoaib maqsood , hussain talats , khushdils etc over the years if they can't dislodge a 50 Yr old chacha then whose fault is that . At one point we even played azhar ali and fawad alam in odi team
Even shafiq was given a consistent run in odi team.
It's come to a situation where pakistan are even trying like of nawaz and shadab and imad as batsmen when everyone knows they are fake all-rounders and not proper batsmen.
This comment is ignorant on various factors.
Babar and misbah only kept people in their friends group and everyone else got a few games before being booted.
1) First of Fawad alam was the highest run getter in the middle order in 2014 and the star of the asia cup, yet he was dropped for the wc in 2015 for literally no reason other then YK's tantrum and after failing in 2016 in Bangladesh odi in which every player including shehzad and others failed resulting in a 3-0 loss he got booted out, but players like shehzad, rizwan etc remained.
Fawad's avg and sr in 2014 alone never warranted a drop over YK, nor did one bad series warrant a drop when everyone failed in that series haris sohail, and sarfraz included.
2) Azhar was the captain chosen by Misbah and he led the team to no 9 rank spot and almost didn't even get Pakistan to qualify for Ct 2017, he disnt get dropped, he retired after 2017, and he was stubbornly opening and in a format courtesy of Misbah. He never deserved a consistent run, but he got one because he's a misbah clique
3) Shehzad is another Misbah product, the kid got his chance post 2013 CT, but after his severe regression in 2014 and early 2015, a drop was warranted, but despite this he was given a respite by misbah and azhar for no reason other then being a part of the clique, it was only inn2017 post azhar era where sarfraz removed him for good and even in 2018 discarded him.
In fact shehzad never deserved to see the light of day bit Misbah the beloved decided to include this moron inn2019 out of the blue despite Pakistan t20 team being ranked no 1.
All of this is dosti yaari nepotism that people have memed and dubbed friendship 11.
4) Akmal, Asif, Hussain talat, Maqsood and Kushdil are also misbah products, these bozos weren't even a part of the 1 t20 rank team set up yet misbah gave then a rope out of the blue. They deserved a boot, Akmal has no business keeping for 6 games over sarfi. These guys got a rope because of the friendship clique.
5) Imam isn't a misbah product but yes a nepotism baby, and tbf he was better then all our other openers back in 2018 besides fakhar. In fact the original plan was to drop Imam and have abid ali replace him, but Inzimam stubbornly selected Imam for 2019 and after that Abid ali had a heart attack, However 2023 wc is an indication that Abdullah shafiq will replace Imam.
As for Abdullah shafiq, he's yet to be given a full rope and pretty sure he's a part of the pdi and test set up full time.
Sharjeel fixed and haider ali got dropped and rightfully so.
^^ The problem is that some players are discarded without being given a fair run or if they are performing in the case of fawad alam, they get dropped out of the blue because their not a part of the friendship 11.
But some players stubbornly get long ropes due to the tu hai mera match winner meme.
As for babar, no he doesn't Try out different combinations, that's a myth, look at last year series and this year, he doesn't swip swop until forced at the last minute. He only swip swoops bowlers and that's it. Atm theirs an issue going on with management
However if babar got his way, then rizwan and babar would be opening with saim at no 3, Fakhar at no 4, shafab at no 5, Chacha at 6 and irfan Khan niazi at 7.
This is a friendship clique, and it was installed by Misbah
