The Pakistan cricket team is officially out of the T20 World Cup 2024 after the match between USA and Ireland got washed out and now criticism of the Pak cricket team and skipper Babar Azam is going to get stronger.
There is no denying the fact that the Pakistani team played poor cricket in this tournament and the leadership was hopeless as well.
The Pakistani batter Ahmed Shehzad who recently called Babar Azam a fake or fraud king has once again come down heavily on Babar Azam and other Pak cricketers. During a show, Ahmed Shehzad demanded sacking of Babar Azam along with some other players. He said, “For the past five years, Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Mohammed Rizwan, Fakhar Zaman and Haris Rauf, they have played together and this lot has got enough opportunities but they have failed to deliver.”
Ahmed further said, “The kind of groupings that are happening in the team… there is a lack of leadership. They keep saying they’re learning from their mistakes. Aap kya seekh rahe hain? Against Canada, when you needed to up your run rate, Rizwan scored the slowest fifty, and Babar scored run-a-ball. There were no demons on that pitch.”
He accused Pak cricketers of giving more importance to personal milestones than the team’s interests. He said, “The problem is that (players chasing) personal milestones have ruined Pakistan cricket. That’s why we’re in this situation right now. They haven’t learnt anything. There is no leadership in this team. You’re (Babar Azam) just a social media-generated king. You’ve had four to five years… You guys play politics; you guys don’t have the required fitness level. You have played your peak cricket and now your cricket is declining. You have not let anyone else come into the team. Till now you have maintained friendships only.”
He concluded by demanding removal of 7-8 players from the team, “Now people will come and scare the PCB chief that if he will remove 7-8 cricketers, then the team will lose its aura. But these are the guys, who are putting friendships over the country and if you remove only two or three from this lot then it would be an injustice for them. Remove all of them.”
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