Babar Azam
Babar Azam Test Career: Pakistan’s superstar batsman Babar Azam has been performing very poorly for some time now and it has become difficult to score runs from his bat. He has become the biggest headache for the team and the team is paying the price for his poor form by losing. Babar is going through a bad phase of his career and in the series against England, he is not able to stay at the crease leave alone scoring runs. The second Test match between Pakistan and England will be played on Multan grounds from October 15 and the PCB has not yet announced the team for it.
According to the report of EPSNcricinfo, Babar Azam is likely to be dropped from the playing eleven in the second test match. It is believed that the decision to oust Babar was recommended by the newly constituted selection committee. Recently, new voting members in the form of Aaqib Javed, Azhar Ali and Aleem Dar joined the new committee. The committee met in Lahore within a few hours after the defeat in the first Test. After this, a meeting was also held in Multan on Saturday, in which PCB Chief Mohsin Naqvi also attended.
Last half-century was scored in December 2022
Babar Azam has not been able to score a single half-century in Test cricket since December 2022. Scored 30 and 5 in the first test against England. Despite his poor performance, captain Shan Masood favored him and called him the best batsman of Pakistan. Coach Jason Gillespie was also seen backing Babar. According to ESPNcricinfo, in the meeting held on Saturday, most of the opinions were in favor of dropping Babar from the team. It is not yet clear whether Babar, who is struggling with poor form, will make himself available for the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy or not.
Played more than 50 test matches for Pakistan
Babar Azam made his debut in Test cricket for Pakistan in the year 2016. After that he played many excellent innings and was successful in impressing everyone with his performance. But now he is going through a bad phase in his career. So far, he has scored 3997 runs in 55 test matches for Pakistan, which includes 9 centuries. Babar has resigned from the limited overs captaincy and under his captaincy the Pakistani team could not perform well in the T20 World Cup 2024 and ODI World Cup 2023.
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