Legendary Pakistan spinner Saqlain Mushtaq needs the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to have a long-term imaginative and prescient for the collection of Pakistan’s captaincy together with Babar Azam. Mushtaq believes that Pakistan has lacked a correct system for choosing a captain which has hampered the expansion of the crew.
The previous offspinner additionally claimed that not having a correct long-term plan has resulted within the fixed chopping and altering in Pakistan’s captaincy. He needs PCB to have a correct plan earlier than choosing a captain.
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Saqlain Mushtaq says this about Babar Azam to PCB
Throughout an interview with Cricket Pakistan, Saqlain Mushtaq talked about that the PCB lacks a correct imaginative and prescient for a long-term captain and the latest points are simply due to their short-term visions with no future planning.
“If it’s important to appoint a captain, do you have a look at the quick time period, long run, or mid time period? What are you contemplating when appointing a captain? We do not appear to have a imaginative and prescient; we have a look at what is going on to occur tomorrow and appoint a captain, then change the crew the following day. As a result of the individuals making these selections do not even know if they will be round tomorrow, there is not any plan for the long run,” Mushtaq added.
He additional cited the instance of Shaheen Afridi who was appointed for a short-term and Babar Azam was reinstated again into the function. Mushtaq added that as a result of short-term planning of the PCB, there have been extra chopping and altering which isn’t good for the crew.
“For instance, Shaheen was appointed for the quick time period and he is already out. Now Babar has are available for the quick time period, there’s been only one World Cup, and now he’ll be modified. Another person will come, after which there’s the Champions Trophy, and after that, the T20 World Cup,” Mushtaq mentioned.
“If you wish to create a frontrunner, the place does the philosophy of working collectively go? How will you’re employed collectively? If you haven’t any plan, you will make anybody the captain. The extra you retain chopping and altering, the extra time you will have to offer to experiments. And earlier than experimenting, it’s important to create a whole technique and have a look at the professionals and cons of that experiment,” he added.
Pakistan’s latest struggles with captaincy
Pakistan cricket has been struggling for a correct long-term captain for a while now. After the ODI World Cup 2023, Babar Azam resigned from the captaincy as a consequence of Pakistan’s poor efficiency within the match the place they misplaced to Afghanistan and even did not qualify for the semi-finals.
Shaheen Afridi was appointed the crew’e subsequent captain for the T20Is. However Pakistan suffered a 4-1 collection defeat to dwelling crew New Zealand underneath the management of Shaheen Afridi. Afterwards, the brand new PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi eliminated Afridi from the function and introduced again Babar Azam to steer the crew within the T20 World Cup 2024.
Nonetheless, the issues didn’t cease right here as Pakistan went into the T20 World Cup 2024 in poor kind. They misplaced a match to Eire and suffered a humiliating collection defeat to hosts England within the lead-up to the match.
With the following white-ball collection in November 2024, the PCB has taken its time to determine on Babar Azam’s future within the function. If Babar Azam is faraway from the function, Shaheen Afridi and Mohammad Rizwan are another choices for the function. Shan Masood will hold his place as Pakistan’s Check captain.
