Pakistan’s newly appointed Test captain and one in every of their fashionable greats, Babar Azam has not had an awesome outing with the bat since he took cost and that has disenchanted former legendary quick bowler Shoaib Akhtar. Azam has registered a few low scores in the Test sequence in Zimbabwe and Akhtar has given his causes for the poor type of the star Pakistani batsman.
Skipper Azam was dismissed for a golden duck by Donald Tiripano in the primary innings of the primary Test in Harare earlier than being despatched packing for two by Blessing Muzarabani in the second Test on the similar venue. Azam was in superb type throughout the T20I sequence scoring 95 runs in three innings together with a fifty however couldn’t replicate that in the longest format.
He has seen his Test fortunes dip since taking on the captaincy for Pakistan. In 4 matches on the helm, Azam has scored simply 124 runs in six innings at a poor common of 20.66 with only one fifty.
Akhtar said {that a} attainable cause for Azam’s poor type might have been the lengthy wait in the dressing room to exit to bat. The Pakistan openers Imran Butt and Abid Ali put collectively a century stand in the sequence opener with Butt once more combining with quantity three Azhar Ali for a fifty run partnership. This meant that Azam needed to wait until the sixty fifth over to get his probability with the bat.
It was an identical story in the second Test too the place Abid Ali and Azhar Ali mixed to place a double century stand for the second-wicket which delayed Azam at quantity 4 and he solely walked out to bat in the 83rd over. Akhtar described Azam’s state of affairs as a quarantine inside a quarantine.
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“Worrying point is again Babar Azam because he is not scoring runs. Against this Zimbabwe team, he had to wait for his turn because first opener and then Azhar Ali played long innings. Babar has to wear his pads and be ready during that time, which is the best and worst part of Test cricket. You have to sit and watch with concentration. and you can’t talk much as well. So, basically, you are in quarantine within a quarantine,” mentioned Akhtar.
Akhtar added that the Pakistan captain was anticipated to attain closely in the Test sequence in Zimbabwe however failed to take action. He nevertheless, didn’t query the truth that Azam was making an attempt his greatest to carry out for Pakistan.
“Babar should have scored at least 300-400 runs during this series, Sometimes it happens that you can’t score runs, but I’m sure Babar is trying his best. We expect a lot from him, so we should try to stay positive,” added Akhtar.
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