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usman.sandhu said:
My apologies for leaving him out.. he deserves to be sacked along with Babar and SSA
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mominsaigol said:
You are correct. We should give him all format captaincy, and allow him complete control of pcb affairs.

Look bro rizwan is consistent, but the problems lie much much deeper then elementary chopping and changing that people are suggesting.

Here are the reasons why we are in a rut.

No 1: Leaving UAE

Pakistan's best players emerged from 2016 psl, Even hafeez improved massively, Our test cricket was sky high cause the players knew how to play test and were giving slow sluggish spin wickets to play.

Leaving uae has damaged Pakistan as youngsters in domestic play on phatta wickets, psl is a joke with substandard international players representing us. Leaving UAE did more damage to pakistan then good. These pitches are woefully easy which is why Pakistani batters lack the technique, timing, footwork and execution to deal qith international bowlers overseas or heck even international players outperform them in their own den.

No 2: No merit system

Travis head got dropped on end by finch and warner cause he use to suck, he was forced to become the best opener in Australia. And aaussies would drop him in a heartbeat the moment they find someone bwtter which motivates him to inprove.

Heck their telling Warner to not come back since he's washed up for ct 2025.

However In Pakistan you have silver Spooner in Shan, Imam etc etc abrar is leagues > any spinner in pakistan atm but he's sitting out lol.

Theirs no competiton to improve. Unlike Australia which is forced to, aka be the best or be dropped by someone better, Pakistan players have zero motivation, The only motivation they have is to make friends with people in power like the captain or management and you are safe.

Someone like azam khan would never ever play cricket under any circumstances in top tier countries but in pakistan because he's the son of Moin Kham he gets free passes.

Rizwan for better or worse represents this crapola system. Things like " Mein khush nahi hoon no 5 pei" and then just getting no 4 is exactly what's wrong aith pakistan cricket.

Until and unless proper pitches are curated and theirs an actual competitive environment, nothing will improve. You cannot expect to become world class if you breed silver Spooners sorry.
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I agree with your No: 2 reason but almost shocked to see the No: 1 . Last time I checked UAE was not in Pakistan , we played there as teams were not agreed to come to Pakistan. And I'm not proud of our wins at UAE which we mainly achieved with the help of two chuckers, Ajmal and Hafeez, that was not cricket, those tests should be expunged from the record.
 
moghul said:
I agree with your No: 2 reason but almost shocked to see the No: 1 . Last time I checked UAE was not in Pakistan , we played there as teams were not agreed to come to Pakistan. And I'm not proud of our wins at UAE which we mainly achieved with the help of two chuckers, Ajmal and Hafeez, that was not cricket, those tests should be expunged from the record.
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It does not matter is UAE is not in pakistan because these pitches are terrible.

England, india and Australia play on bouncy, seaming and spin wickets. For them these roads are halwas which is why any foreign team murks us in our own den.

Also, you're acting like no 1 test was just achieved by these 2. We were no 1 even after ajmal departed and yasir Shah replaced and hafeez during this period was banned from bowling.

YK, Misbah, Azhar, Sarfi, Asad shafiq all these boys had proper experience playing on proper pitches.

The reason hafeez, fakhar, Haris sohail etc even improved in the 2017-2019 period was due to playing in UAE. UAE is a paradise putch that offers good seam and spin and a reactively equal balance between bat and ball.

Pindi is a phatta that offers nothing for bowlers causing bowlers to lose interest in test cricket and pakistani batters to be woefully outmatched by foreign teams in overseas conditions.

Sure occasionally you'll get one or 2 outliers like saud somehow doing good overseas in Sri Lanka but it'll remain an outlier as everyone looked clueless in Australia.
 
A noticeable shift in Babar Azam's defense in Tests

In his first 6 years (63 innings), he was bowled just 6 times (9.5%) However, in the last 2.5 years, this has increased to 8 times in 33 innings (24.2%)
 
He should be dropped from test and T20 sides. The only format he should play is ODIs, and even in that format, his place should be under threat.

But will Babar ever get dropped by the spineless PCB? No, because they have marketed this guy as some superstar, even though he has zero star quality. Babar will play nonstop in all formats until he decides to retire, which probably is another decade from now.
 
Not only Babar, a few other guys should be dropped as well.

Babar should be the first guy who should have been rested from this series.
 
Bobsy will never be an ATG - does not have a champion's mindset or the drive to become one.

But difficult to axe him when your captain is the worst batsman in the side by a country mile.

Imam is a talentless wonder who looks like a minnow against the short ball but his output at least in Asia has been twice that of Shan.

That's how bad Shan is currently. He's also nearly 35. When is he going to deliver ?

Replace Shan with Huraira maybe for the next series.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Bobsy will never be an ATG - does not have a champion's mindset or the drive to become one.

But difficult to axe him when your captain is the worst batsman in the side by a country mile.

Imam is a talentless wonder who looks like a minnow against the short ball but his output at least in Asia has been twice that of Shan.

That's how bad Shan is currently. He's also nearly 35. When is he going to deliver ?

Replace Shan with Huraira maybe for the next series.
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Today I heard a new revelation that he is the 2nd best batsmen pakistan had ever produced.

So no, We must keep him. Today I woke up in a parralel universe where the top batsmen pakistan have ever produced are

1) Miandad
2) Babar
3) Misbah
4) Rizwan

Can't drop such ATG's
 
mominsaigol said:
Today I heard a new revelation that he is the 2nd best batsmen pakistan had ever produced.

So no, We must keep him. Today I woke up in a parralel universe where the top batsmen pakistan have ever produced are

1) Miandad
2) Babar
3) Misbah
4) Rizwan

Can't drop such ATG's
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Regardless, the biggest issue is still Shan. Good lad but you can't justify his spot with such pathetic numbers .
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Regardless, the biggest issue is still Shan. Good lad but you can't justify his spot with such pathetic numbers .
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In pakistan you can justify anything as long as you have a rich dad and on press conferences you can say

""Were we to employ three swift-bowling men, 'twould strain them to their utmost, whilst the spinner would toil through thrice ten overs each day, a burden we sought not to bear.

We thought the heavens, in their fickle mood, might cut the match short ere five days were spent. Alas, our judgment did err."
 
mominsaigol said:
In pakistan you can justify anything as long as you have a rich dad and on press conferences you can say

""Were we to employ three swift-bowling men, 'twould strain them to their utmost, whilst the spinner would toil through thrice ten overs each day, a burden we sought not to bear.

We thought the heavens, in their fickle mood, might cut the match short ere five days were spent. Alas, our judgment did err."
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Beautiful words from Shanspeare.
 
kingusama92 said:
Beautiful words from Shanspeare.
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Pakistan employed Shan and his fans claimed he'll be a good captain because he can speak good English.

So might as well just make any Tom dick and Harry who's a Shakespeare fan and make them captain.

Heck make me captain? If the job description is to flunk in both batting and captaincy while speaking nonsense on the press and making millions of I've it. I'll gladly accept that.
 
mominsaigol said:
Pakistan employed Shan and his fans claimed he'll be a good captain because he can speak good English.

So might as well just make any Tom dick and Harry who's a Shakespeare fan and make them captain.

Heck make me captain? If the job description is to flunk in both batting and captaincy while speaking nonsense on the press and making millions of I've it. I'll gladly accept that.
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100% spot on.

This guy has an average of 24 over the past two years which is somehow WORSE than his already pathetic career average. On top of this, he has an average of 17 at home over the same period.

The team is already terrible and they're going out there one batsman short every time he's in the XI.

People usually say "let your bat do the talking," while the PCB listens to Shan's post-match losing speeches saying...

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Is this a cricket team or a poetry club?
 
kingusama92 said:
100% spot on.

This guy has an average of 24 over the past two years which is somehow WORSE than his already pathetic career average. On top of this, he has an average of 17 at home over the same period.

The team is already terrible and they're going out there one batsman short every time he's in the XI.

People usually say "let your bat do the talking," while the PCB listens to Shan's post-match losing speeches saying...

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Is this a cricket team or a poetry club?
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Honestly no joke, I can literally find uni school boys who are superior to shan as a cricketer.

Shan is literally clueless againat anything that pitches below waist height which is 99% of deliveries.

His 100 againat England was because England had a brain fade moment, Archer stubbornly bowled waist high and shan capitalised because the only thing he knows how to play is waist high and even then he sometimes knicks it lol. And that test was just a bad off day for England, They tend to have such moments like they did a few times in wc 2019 and againat pakistan in ct 2017
 
But the topic of the talk is Babar Azam. Do not let him fade away from the chat.
 
BouncerGuy said:
But the topic of the talk is Babar Azam. Do not let him fade away from the chat.
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I won't, it is my duty to remind people of this fraud.

Babar is hiding behind Shakespeare Shan. Biggest conman in the history of Pakistan cricket.
 
BouncerGuy said:
how babar is hiding behind shan??? That is something new
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He hid behind shaheen did he not? No one forced him to resign however the planet was murking him left and right. He was loosing respect of not just pakistani fans but the entire planet as a whole.

He knew full well to resign so that he cpuld hide behind the argument of

"Captaincy was pressure so it affected my batting"

Sadly the Internet has short term memory, as soon as the heat faded, he came back to stab shaheen in the back, and what did his captaincy do? Get booted by USA.

Now he's hiding behind Shan, using him as a scapegoat.
 
mominsaigol said:
It does not matter is UAE is not in pakistan because these pitches are terrible.

England, india and Australia play on bouncy, seaming and spin wickets. For them these roads are halwas which is why any foreign team murks us in our own den.

Also, you're acting like no 1 test was just achieved by these 2. We were no 1 even after ajmal departed and yasir Shah replaced and hafeez during this period was banned from bowling.

YK, Misbah, Azhar, Sarfi, Asad shafiq all these boys had proper experience playing on proper pitches.

The reason hafeez, fakhar, Haris sohail etc even improved in the 2017-2019 period was due to playing in UAE. UAE is a paradise putch that offers good seam and spin and a reactively equal balance between bat and ball.

Pindi is a phatta that offers nothing for bowlers causing bowlers to lose interest in test cricket and pakistani batters to be woefully outmatched by foreign teams in overseas conditions.

Sure occasionally you'll get one or 2 outliers like saud somehow doing good overseas in Sri Lanka but it'll remain an outlier as everyone looked clueless in Australia.
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Until Pakistan doesn't have any good spinner , we should play all our tests at Perth , genius . Good to see some posters with great cricketing knowledge , I enjoy it.
 
Not only Babar need rest but I would suggest dropping Shaheen Afridi as well.

What’s the worst that could happen by removing these two when we are already losing games with them in the lineup.
 
Picking players for right formats is a start. At this point SSA, Naseem shah are struggling even in ODIs. So they should be backed in those formats. Babar can play Tests. It probably suits his approach. But he has developed technical weakness or hidden technical weakness exposed. He is getting out similarly across the formats. Rizwan is probably suitable for ODIs and Tests definitely not T20s despite his ranking.
 
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Babar Azam is not an ATG... No spine no guts, please let's get rid of him..

And ask him to take his friends Rizwan, SSA, Shadab, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar and Azam Khan with him..

We don't want useless toxic players in the team...
 
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usman.sandhu said:
Babar Azam is not an ATG... No spine no guts, please let's get rid of him..

And ask him to take his friends Rizwan, SSA, Shadab, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar and Azam Khan with him..

We don't want useless toxic players in the team...
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Azam Khan is not his friend
 
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I’ve said it once and will say it again. If you remove Babar, Shaheen and Rizwan you will have a massive effect on the mentality of the team.

Someone has to have the guts to do this.
 
TheSultan said:
I’ve said it once and will say it again. If you remove Babar, Shaheen and Rizwan you will have a massive effect on the mentality of the team.

Someone has to have the guts to do this.
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Shaheen is unnecessarily being dragged into this.

He is fine. The other two have lost the plot and have taken Pakistan down a path of mediocrity
 
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Rana said:
Shaheen is unnecessarily being dragged into this.

He is fine. The other two have lost the plot and have taken Pakistan down a path of mediocrity
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I think Shaheen needs a break for different reasons. Shaheen purely needs it from a fitness perspective. He is very ineffective right now. He either needs his pace back or different bowling plans. He’s just too ineffective to be the spearhead
 
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TheSultan said:
I’ve said it once and will say it again. If you remove Babar, Shaheen and Rizwan you will have a massive effect on the mentality of the team.

Someone has to have the guts to do this.
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What has Rizwan done wrong?
 
Babar is going nowhere and we know that. Yes, he should be rested for the next game but he is going to play.

Want to see him score runs but this is not happening atm.
 
Rana said:
Shaheen is unnecessarily being dragged into this.

He is fine. The other two have lost the plot and have taken Pakistan down a path of mediocrity
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Why Rizwan? Guy is the only one scoring some runs across formats and saving Pak further blushes. Plus he is a decent keeper.

SSA should be dropped though. Boy is on a vengeance trip, while losing control of his own bowling. His pace is down and he is barely getting wickets.

I would say remove Shan, Babar & SSA & make Rizwan captain.
 
You cannot drop any player from the team unless and until you drop Masood first.

He is the worst Test cricketer of the last 10 years. The biggest failure and loser who averages 28 after 34 Tests and is undoubtedly the worst top-order batsman in history of Pakistan cricket.

Accountability process has to start with him because his selection, let alone captaincy, cannot be justified by his output and his age.

No one is more deserving of getting the boot.
 
TheSultan said:
I’ve said it once and will say it again. If you remove Babar, Shaheen and Rizwan you will have a massive effect on the mentality of the team.

Someone has to have the guts to do this.
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Nothing hurts the mentality of the team more than the fact that the worst batsman in your history is captaining the team. It has to start with Masood otherwise there can be no fair accountability process.

No player is less deserving to be in the team based on his overall contribution and performance, and we have made him captain. Only possible in Pakistan.
 
Mamoon said:
Nothing hurts the mentality of the team more than the fact that the worst batsman in your history is captaining the team. It has to start with Masood otherwise there can be no fair accountability process.

No player is less deserving to be in the team based on his overall contribution and performance, and we have made him captain. Only possible in Pakistan.
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Fair.

Drop Shan too. For me, he’s irrevelant which is why I’ve not mentioned him. He’ll be phased out sooner or later.

The bigger problem are the other 3 because we’ve tried to form our so-called backbone around them.

Dropping them all (for different qualifying reasons) will send a strong message to everyone else.

If you don’t perform for a length of time - dropped

If you are not fit enough to be effective - dropped

If you make a bit more than everyone else, but you don’t make it count and only play for your milestones - dropped.
 
Mockingbird said:
Why Rizwan? Guy is the only one scoring some runs across formats and saving Pak further blushes. Plus he is a decent keeper.

SSA should be dropped though. Boy is on a vengeance trip, while losing control of his own bowling. His pace is down and he is barely getting wickets.

I would say remove Shan, Babar & SSA & make Rizwan captain.
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What have his runs contributed too?

He was our top scorer vs Australia and we lost that series 3-0. When he had the opportunity to win us the Melbourne game he failed spectacularly and tried to cheat with the DRS

When he had the opportunity in the Sydney game to partner up with Jamal and take us to a score over 450+ he choked once again forcing Jamal to the all the hard work by himself

Against Bangladesh last week his runs did nothing. He was out batted by both Das and Mushfiqur and when he could have saved the same he decided to throw away his wicket as he always does.

Making him captain will be the worst decision possible. All it will do is cement the KP nexus as the main forced controlling Pakistan cricket and we will probably see a team like this:

1. Rizwan
2. Sahabzada Farhan
3. Adil Amin
4. Babar (VC)
5. Iftikhar
6. Haseebullah
7. Mohammad Sarwar
8. Sajad Khan
9. Shaheen
10. Naseem
11. Arshad Iqbal
 
CerebralPatriot said:
What have his runs contributed too?

He was our top scorer vs Australia and we lost that series 3-0. When he had the opportunity to win us the Melbourne game he failed spectacularly and tried to cheat with the DRS

When he had the opportunity in the Sydney game to partner up with Jamal and take us to a score over 450+ he choked once again forcing Jamal to the all the hard work by himself

Against Bangladesh last week his runs did nothing. He was out batted by both Das and Mushfiqur and when he could have saved the same he decided to throw away his wicket as he always does.

Making him captain will be the worst decision possible. All it will do is cement the KP nexus as the main forced controlling Pakistan cricket and we will probably see a team like this:

1. Rizwan
2. Sahabzada Farhan
3. Adil Amin
4. Babar (VC)
5. Iftikhar
6. Haseebullah
7. Mohammad Sarwar
8. Sajad Khan
9. Shaheen
10. Naseem
11. Arshad Iqbal
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If not Rizwan, can you tell me any viable alternatives in your team? Somebody who is non-toxic, has a bit of experience managing players and justifies his own place in the squad?
 
Mockingbird said:
If not Rizwan, can you tell me any viable alterNatives in your team? Somebody who is non-toxic, has a bit of experience managing players and justifies his own place in the squad?
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Using your criteria:
- Saifi: has many years of experience as captain, as a test batsmen he is more reliable than Rizwan (see his 100 vs NZ) and is definitely non toxic considering the results under his tenure
 
CerebralPatriot said:
Using your criteria:
- Saifi: has many years of experience as captain, as a test batsmen he is more reliable than Rizwan (see his 100 vs NZ) and is definitely non toxic considering the results under his tenure
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Since when was rizwan non toxic 🤣🤣. He had a meltdown on being given no 5 in odi. And went insane and had a hissfit on being dropped against NZ for one series?
 
Babar Azam is practicing hard, but I'm sure he will get out bowled again in the same manner as in the 1st Test

 
Mamoon said:
Nothing hurts the mentality of the team more than the fact that the worst batsman in your history is captaining the team. It has to start with Masood otherwise there can be no fair accountability process.

No player is less deserving to be in the team based on his overall contribution and performance, and we have made him captain. Only possible in Pakistan.
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Still better than imam ul haq, saim ayub, babar azam in tests.
 
Katwalindian said:
Still better than imam ul haq, saim ayub, babar azam in tests.
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Surely this must be a joke

Imam averages 37 after 24 matches, Babar averages 45 after 53 matches, and I’m 200% sure Saim would average much more than 28 as well.

Masood with an average of 28 after 34 Tests is the worst top-order batsman in Pakistan history and the fact that he is 34 and as good as he can ever hope to be makes it even worse.

Masood is bad. Always was and always will be. He is just not good enough but some deluded folks will never accept the reality.
 
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Mamoon said:
Surely this must be a joke

Imam averages 37 after 24 matches, Babar averages 45 after 53 matches, and I’m 200% sure Saim would average much more than 28 as well.

Masood with an average of 28 after 34 Tests is the worst top-order batsman in Pakistan history and the fact that he is 34 and as good as he can ever hope to be makes it even worse.

Masood is bad. Always was and always will be. He is just not good enough but some deluded folks will never accept the reality.
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Even what you're saying is better than his recent output. Somehow he's way worse.

Shan is averaging 24 over the past two years and 17 at home.

This guy has to be one of the worst Test batsmen to ever play for Pakistan but of course, he speaks fluent English which makes him a legend.
 
Babar can be rested for the next game surely but it is not going to happen and we know it. Kamran Ghulam can be tried instead but it Shan type players are playing then why not babar??
 
BouncerGuy said:
If shan is better than these guys then I am better than virat kohli.
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Atm, ironically Shan is better then Saim Ayub.

He is 13 international half centuries and 4 international centuries in 62 international games whereas Saim has 1 international half century across 25 international games.

And Shan has a better List A record but a weaker FC record then saim.

So ig you're better then Virat Kohli 👀
 
Babar lost form completely.

It is a shame because he was scoring centuries after centuries (he has 31 international centuries) and runs after runs before captaincy.

Captaincy ruined his form.
 
It has been 612 days since Babar has got a 50+ score in Tests. This is a stats to be worried about for him.
 
BouncerGuy said:
It has been 612 days since Babar has got a 50+ score in Tests. This is a stats to be worried about for him.
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Players get too comfortable or find ways to get out and then they believe they are out of form when in fact they are short of runs. Babar is short of runs and a match away won't be worse thing but as I explained yesterday, this creates complications as the guy coming in needs a run. Do you want to play against England without Babar?
 
sweep_shot said:
Babar lost form completely.

It is a shame because he was scoring centuries after centuries (he has 31 international centuries) and runs after runs before captaincy.

Captaincy ruined his form.
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He was so ring centuries against crapola attacks.

He only had 5 centuries In odi against top sides playing full strength which resulted in pakistan losing 3 of those games. Aka 1 against full strength Australia in 2017, 2 against full strength England in 2021, 1 against NZ in 2019 and one against full strength SA.

Again he isn't a bad player as scoring 3 back to back centuries against any team even if it's a crap bowling attack like wi and scoring 3 centuries in t20 regardless of the opposition is impressive,

But he was always overhyped beyond belief.

At his peak he was nothing more then a consistent accumulator but one that lacked the match winning flair of yousaf. Basically he's just a superior version of misbah, aka inpactless but not a total bottler and one who can actually score centuries rather them being perpetually stuck on a 50
 
mominsaigol said:
He was so ring centuries against crapola attacks.

He only had 5 centuries In odi against top sides playing full strength which resulted in pakistan losing 3 of those games. Aka 1 against full strength Australia in 2017, 2 against full strength England in 2021, 1 against NZ in 2019 and one against full strength SA.

Again he isn't a bad player as scoring 3 back to back centuries against any team even if it's a crap bowling attack like wi and scoring 3 centuries in t20 regardless of the opposition is impressive,

But he was always overhyped beyond belief.

At his peak he was nothing more then a consistent accumulator but one that lacked the match winning flair of yousaf. Basically he's just a superior version of misbah, aka inpactless but not a total bottler and one who can actually score centuries rather them being perpetually stuck on a 50
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Babar scored many centuries against depleted sides. That's true. But, he can't even do that now. Lost form badly.
 
Taking to social media platform X, Tanveer Ahmed slammed PCB chief Mohsin Naqvi and others for openly targetting Babar Azam:

"On social media, it seems like people think Babar Azam is the only one responsible for the downfall of Pakistan cricket, and the board has no fault. Have some fear of God, if you're eager to earn money, then at least praise Babar sometimes too, instead of just criticizing him."

https://twitter.com/x/status/1829043639709749441
 
And......it was in December 2022 when Babar hit 161 against New Zealand in a Test in Karachi but since then he has struggled to get runs under his belt. He scored only 289 runs in the last 14 innings at an average of 20.64. In the two innings of the first Test against Bangladesh, Babar scored 0 and 22.
 
FearlessRoar said:
And......it was in December 2022 when Babar hit 161 against New Zealand in a Test in Karachi but since then he has struggled to get runs under his belt. He scored only 289 runs in the last 14 innings at an average of 20.64. In the two innings of the first Test against Bangladesh, Babar scored 0 and 22.
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since then they are keep playing in Rawalpindi and getting demolished there peacefully lol
 
Yes. He used to be a good player but not anymore. The team does not rely on him anymore and he still does not perform. It is time to give some young guys the number 4 position and bid Babar farewell for a few years.
 
During speaking on his you tube channel, Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja has advised Babar Azam to stay off social media after his disappointing performance in the first Test against Bangladesh in Rawalpindi:

“It seems the entire nation does not have a problem with anything except the form of Babar Azam. Unfortunately what happens is when you lose a match and you have not scored runs and if you are Babar Azam, then you become a headline - How did we lose? What did he do? What was his contribution? And then this is the era of social media. Anybody can criticize and ridicule anyone, this should be discouraged as much as possible.”

“Cricket is in our blood but don't know for how long if we continue to lose matches like this in Test cricket. Fan following increases with wins and fans identify themselves with success stories. Babar Azam has had a famous success story. There is no doubt that he has been a big player in all three formats.”
 
FearlessRoar said:
And......it was in December 2022 when Babar hit 161 against New Zealand in a Test in Karachi but since then he has struggled to get runs under his belt. He scored only 289 runs in the last 14 innings at an average of 20.64. In the two innings of the first Test against Bangladesh, Babar scored 0 and 22.
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Wow!

Big drop in performance.

I guess it is time to drop him. Average of 20 is not good.
 
Yes. needs a break. point is we are losing anyway, might as well give chances to new blood. I would play Kamran and Hurraira next game.

Also, drop Shaheen and Nasim, no point. Play 1 spinner, and 1 other fast bowler who has at least some more control or more swing even if less pace like Mir Hamza or Khurram Shehzad.
 
He averages the same as Kohli in tests in last 4 yrs. If kohli doesn't get dropped, he is also unlikely to be dropped. I m not suggesting that team Ind should be the benchmark. All I m saying is that this is how things work among all the asian teams. Whether one likes it or not.
 
I think give him the rest of the series, if he does not make any big impact, then he should be dropped. He is a quality player, but he just seems to be mentally fatigued.
 
he already had enough chances to regain his form in Test cricket but failed miserably... seems like he is under pressure now so its better for him to take a break, reorganize himself and make a comeback... this way he is just making himself a meme material which is quite embarrassing to see.
 
A King or a generational talent is never dropped. You simply savour every second of their presence in the middle.

Bob king has padded enough stats to stick with the team for as long as he likes.
:inti
 
Yeah. I think it is time for him to announce himself that he will rest for the next series or 2 or else PCB should help him to announce.

He has been a dead weight and eating space for some other guy who can do better than him atm.
 
Basit Ali speaking on his YouTube Channel:

“Pakistan is damaging Babar’s confidence when he has just regained his rhythm. Since Pakistan won’t qualify for the World Test Championship (WTC) final, it would be wise to rest him. If you want to keep him in the Playing XI, prepare better pitches.”

“If the pitch is similar to the first Test, it could harm the players’ confidence further. Babar struggled in the first Test, but he found his form in South Africa, scoring runs in both ODIs and Tests.”
 
In last 18 test that Saud Shakeel has been part of, if you exclude Imam and Sarfraz as they are not part of the test team any more, Babar averages better that four specialist batsmen: Abdullah Shafiq, Saim, Shan Masood & Kamran Ghulam.


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W63L35 said:
In last 18 test that Saud Shakeel has been part of, if you exclude Imam and Sarfraz as they are not part of the test team any more, Babar averages better that four specialist batsmen: Abdullah Shafiq, Saim, Shan Masood & Kamran Ghulam.
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Indian batsmen in the similar number of tests...

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Babar fails yet again...just 1 for him in the 1st inning against windeis in the 2nd test... Gets clean bowled by Motie.
 
He is clearly struggling... Especially against spin... Should be rested now.. It does not matter anyways... nest test is many month away.

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