Pakistan Cricket Team Makes History Under the captaincy of Babar Azam, the national team did what no other team had done in Pakistan’s 75-year history of Test cricket.
Rameez Raja’s foresight and Babar Azam’s brilliant captaincy gave the national team a whitewash at home for the first time in Test cricket, which is certainly a great honour. You can’t even imagine how much thought Babar Azam and the team management must have done to do this. Such a feat that the great captains of Pakistan could not do. Be it Abdul Hafeez Kardar or Asif Iqbal, great leaders like Imran Khan or Inzamam-ul-Haq and Misbah-ul-Haq are considered to be the most successful captains of Test cricket, they too could never be whitewashed at home ground in Test cricket. But this honor fell to Babur Azam. Because those friends are very good. A friend is also one who feels secure by seeing someone better than him.
Every time after losing a match Babar says we learned a lot from defeat. By combining all the experiences Babar has learned from winning series and losing matches so far, he embraced this whitewash defeat. Whitewash, the national team has been playing Test cricket for so long, never lost 4 consecutive Tests on home ground, but Babar is a great captain, he also pinched this honor in the name of Pakistan.
National Stadium Karachi used to be a stronghold for the national team. Pakistan played 46 Test matches at the National Stadium and won 23 of them. 19 matches were drawn. A match was cancelled. The national team was defeated in only 3 matches. The last time South Africa beat Pakistan at the National Stadium was in 2007. It was Babar Azam who after 15 years enabled the national team to be easily defeated even in their own stronghold.
Experts say that Babar Azam’s career has been tarnished by this brilliant performance. But Babar Azam says that scars are good. After losing any series, the most fun thing to watch is the coach and captain’s press conference. Today, Babur Azam accepted the responsibility of the defeat showing great magnanimity. But the funny thing is, no one will ask them about it. If we work even in a small office, we get a warning for the first mistake, a reprimand for the second and a showdown notice for the third mistake. But keep your faith in the national team and place whoever you want in the team and when the result is bad, we have learned a lot from the defeat and move on.
In the press conference, Babar was asked that Mohammad Rizwan is constantly failing, so why didn’t Sarfaraz get a chance? He said it was an important series and Rizwan was in good form, so he gave him a chance. Muhammad Rizwan is struggling for the last 10 matches. He has no fifty in his last 12 innings. Then what about good form but Rizwan is Ladla so he will play. On the other hand, on dropping Fawad, Babar says Fawad was not in form, so he was dropped. The same Fawad who was a member of the 2021 Test Team of the Year. He was dropped only when Australia’s series went bad. Now why two separate formulas for two players in the same team. When Fawad can be dropped by not performing in six innings, why can’t Rizwan fail in 12 innings?
There is no doubt that Babar Azam is a great batsman, but no one is ready to accept that he is the best captain. A captain who does not use his bowlers properly will have no cricketing knowledge. But Ramiz Raja is blindfolded. They do not see anything beyond Babar. When everything is ruined, then the chairman will say, learned a lot from mistakes. But it is not known who will compensate the loss of Pakistan due to these mistakes.
Babar will also be gone and Ramiz Raja will also remain only these records which will always make Pakistan proud.
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