Babar Azam resigned as Pakistan‘s white-ball captain earlier this week, which got here as a shock to some. However former wicketkeeper-batsman Rashid Latif believes Babar has taken the suitable name and it’ll sign his return because the crew’s premier batsman.
“Thanks, very a lot. Der aaye durust aaye (he understood late, however rightly ultimately),” stated Latif in a video on his social media accounts.
“(Mohammad) Amir, Azam and Imad Wasim have at all times saved you in your toes, performed the World Cup as they wished to.Now they’re gone. Ab Babar ka time aayega. Kaptaani chhor di, strain khatam ho gaya uske upar (now Babar’s time will come because the strain of captaincy is off),” he added.
Pakistan made early exits from the ODI World Cup final yr and the T20 World Cup this June. Nonetheless, experiences counsel that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) wished to retain Babar as skipper within the 50-over format.
With Shan Masood already main the aspect in Assessments, the frontrunner for white-ball captaincy now’s wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan.
“Plenty of issues bought broken by him (Babar), two World Cups glided by. He wished captaincy on the fallacious time. That is why I’ll advise Rizwan, no means (do not change into captain). Give others an opportunity; you did not get captaincy at a time you need to have gotten it,” opined Latif.
He additionally instructed just a few names for ODI captaincy apart from Rizwan, who has been Pakistan’s most constant batsman of late.
“Shadab (Khan) is an effective candidate, Haris (Rauf) is an effective candidate, Salman Ali Agha…Let’s examine the way it goes shifting ahead,” the 55-year-old former stumper added.
He went on to quote the instance of Imran Khan and Younis Khan to clarify how a frontrunner can information the crew, in contrast to a captain who could not have the qualities of a frontrunner.
Pakistan gained the ODI World Cup beneath Imran in 1992 and the T20 World Cup in 2009 when Younis was the crew’s captain.
“Within the 1992 World Cup, management high quality took us by means of. Equally in 2009-10, Younis Khan was a frontrunner. He took on the (PCB) administration at the moment. He had the management high quality, took everybody head-on, even gamers within the crew had been sad with him. Choice committee resigned, saying this isn’t our crew. He turned them into champions,” stated Latif.
“Board mei har koi chief bana hua hai, board mei division ho gayi hai (everyone seems to be a frontrunner within the PCB, it is a divided home),” he stated.
Latif concluded by saying that Pakistan should wait till the Champions Trophy subsequent yr to discover a participant who may be the crew’s chief.
“My statement is that Pakistan will uncover a brand new chief solely after the Champions Trophy. Kaptaan boht hain yahan, chief chahiye (we’ve got many captains, however want a frontrunner).”
The Champions Trophy is scheduled for February-March subsequent yr in Pakistan.
