What is going to occur to Babar Azam now? (PC-GETTY IMAGES)

Date 16 June. Pakistan defeated a falling Eire. The crew was already out of the World Cup. This match was identical to a battle of status. On this match, Pakistan needed to show that it had a nasty match towards America, in any other case it will have positively been within the Tremendous-8. However as an alternative of proving this, it appeared that the historical past of 2007 was going to be repeated. Identical to the 2007 World Cup, Eire goes to defeat Pakistan within the 2024 World Cup as nicely. Properly, Shaheen Shah Afridi didn’t let this case come up by hitting two sixes. After this victory, Babar Azam appeared aggressive within the press convention.

What did Babar say?

Initially allow us to inform you what he stated, Babar said- “I’ll discuss no matter occurred right here after returning. If I’ve to depart the captaincy, I’ll take a call in entrance of everybody. I’m not going to take any choice secretly. PCB had handed over the captaincy to me once more. Now they must resolve. We’re dropping as a crew. This isn’t occurring due to anybody participant. It isn’t proper to speak solely about captaincy. I can not go and play instead of each participant. There are 11 gamers within the crew, each participant has his personal function. I believe we couldn’t do nicely as a crew.”

Captain Babar Azam talked about enjoying alone as an alternative of 11 gamers however maybe he forgot that the statistics don’t assist his assertion. Babar scored 122 runs in 4 matches of the World Cup. His strike fee was 101.66. There isn’t a must say a lot.

Babar Azam’s stats as captain?

After the 2023 World Cup, Babar Azam needed to depart the captaincy. By the way in which, in such circumstances, everybody is aware of the story that circumstances of leaving the captaincy are very uncommon. The truth is, with the speak of eradicating from the captaincy, the board makes this ‘provide’ that if the participant is prepared, he may even say that the captaincy was left and never eliminated. After Babar Azam’s elimination, Shan Masood was given the command of the Take a look at crew and Shaheen Shah Afridi was given the command of the T20 format. Pakistan performed a sequence towards New Zealand beneath the captaincy of Shaheen Shah Afridi. Pakistan needed to face a nasty defeat in that sequence too. After this, as quickly because the T20 World Cup got here, the captaincy got here again to Babar Azam. Many questions come up on this choice. However earlier than these questions, allow us to inform you the statistics of Babar Azam as a captain.

Pakistan has performed 20 Take a look at matches beneath Babar’s captaincy. Out of those, it has received 10. 6 have misplaced and 4 matches had been drawn. The win and loss proportion is 50. There are 26 wins and 15 losses in 43 ODIs. 1 match was tied and 1 was inconclusive. The win-loss proportion is 63.09. Within the T20 format, there are 48 wins and 29 losses in 85 matches. 1 match was tied and seven matches didn’t end result. Right here the win-loss proportion is 62.17. Speaking about Babar Azam’s captaincy in World Cup matches, he has bought 4 wins and 5 losses in 9 ODI matches. Whereas in 17 T20 matches, there are 11 wins, 5 losses and 1 match was tied. Right here the win-loss proportion is 67.64. That’s, Babar’s win proportion is greater than 50 in virtually all codecs. The one bitter reality in that is that he has needed to face defeat in large and vital matches.

Now again to the questions

Now let’s speak in regards to the questions that come up when Babar Azam is made the captain once more. The query could be very easy, if Babar Azam was accountable for Pakistan’s defeat within the 2023 World Cup, then why was he once more given the possibility in 2024? Quite the opposite, if Babar Azam had left the captaincy, then what occurred in 6-7 months that he once more agreed to take up this tough duty? The actual story is that Pakistan cricket has been a sufferer of super factionalism for a while now. There’s a Lahore-Karachi faction. There may be this and that faction. There’s a faction of former gamers. There’s a faction of Pakistan Cricket Board officers. Gary Kirsten understood this in a couple of days. He additionally stated clearly that every part is just not going nicely within the crew right here.

If every part was going nicely, the Pakistan crew wouldn’t have been a sufferer of upsets in virtually each main event within the current previous. Typically Pakistan is defeated by the Zimbabwe crew. Typically it’s defeated by the US crew enjoying an ICC event for the primary time. The remaining activity is accomplished by the officers of the Pakistan Cricket Board who give statements in the course of the event that after a sure defeat it appeared {that a} minor surgical procedure must be carried out, after a sure defeat evidently a serious surgical procedure must be carried out. There’s a worry within the minds of the gamers even earlier than they step on the sphere.

The result’s in entrance of everybody. In the meantime, one other large growth is that there’s virtually no chance of Babar Azam being given the captaincy for the Take a look at sequence towards Bangladesh. All that may be stated is – Wow Pakistan, Wow Babar Azam and Wow Pakistan Cricket Board.