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 proper name and it’ll sign his return because the staff’s premier batsman.
“Thanks, very a lot. Der aaye durust aaye (he understood late, however rightly in the long run),” stated Latif in a video on his social media accounts.
“(Mohammad) Amir, Azam and Imad Wasim have all the time stored you in your toes, performed the World Cup as they needed 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 12 months and the T20 World Cup this June. Nonetheless, stories recommend that the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) needed 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.
“Loads of issues received broken by him (Babar), two World Cups glided by. He needed captaincy on the flawed time. That is why I’ll advise Rizwan, no method (do not change into captain). Give others an opportunity; you did not get captaincy at a time it’s best to have gotten it,” opined Latif.
He additionally instructed a number of names for ODI captaincy aside from Rizwan, who has been Pakistan’s most constant batsman of late.
“Shadab (Khan) is an efficient candidate, Haris (Rauf) is an efficient candidate, Salman Ali Agha…Let’s have a look at the way it goes transferring 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 pacesetter can information the staff, in contrast to a captain who might not have the qualities of a pacesetter.
Pakistan received the ODI World Cup beneath Imran in 1992 and the T20 World Cup in 2009 when Younis was the staff’s captain.
“Within the 1992 World Cup, management high quality took us via. Equally in 2009-10, Younis Khan was a pacesetter. He took on the (PCB) administration at the moment. He had the management high quality, took everybody head-on, even gamers within the staff have been sad with him. Choice committee resigned, saying this isn’t our staff. 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 pacesetter within the PCB, it is a divided home),” he stated.
Latif concluded by saying that Pakistan must wait till the Champions Trophy subsequent 12 months to discover a participant who will be the staff’s chief.
“My commentary is that Pakistan will uncover a brand new chief solely after the Champions Trophy. Kaptaan boht hain yahan, chief chahiye (now we have many captains, however want a pacesetter).”
The Champions Trophy is scheduled for February-March subsequent 12 months in Pakistan.
