Pakistan captain Babar Azam finds himself in a never-seen-before state of affairs, dealing with criticism from nearly each Pakistan fan, former cricketer, or professional. Since Pakistan’s sudden defeat towards Afghanistan, your entire cricketing fraternity again dwelling has turned towards Babar, criticising his management abilities. Shahid Afridi, one of many greats of the sport, has ripped into Babar for his captaincy fashion that has did not get the perfect out of the staff. Afridi urged Babar to guide by instance if he’s to show issues round within the coming video games of the World Cup.

Sharing examples from his personal days as an energetic cricketer, Afridi stated: “When you are not in the game [not focused], then these things [fielding issues] will happen. When you are trying to hide somewhere, when you are not thinking positively, I think that at times we are waiting for miracles, miracles don’t just happen. They happen with brave men who know how to fight,” Afridi stated whereas speaking Samaa TV.

“Look, a captain is everything. If a captain gives his best, dives during the field, backs other players between overs, the entire team will get [more] active, because when they see that the captain is giving his all and we are not, they feel ashamed that my captain is doing so much, why can’t I be the same?”

“It has happened in the past, when I was the captain or Mohammad Yousuf was, when we used to run in the ground and support players, then the entire team used to charge up. When Inzamam would dive during the field, then, believe me, we players used to feel ashamed that why are we not diving when the captain is. At the end of the day, everything comes right back to the captain.”

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Afridi cited the examples of different groups like Australia who refused to go simple on opponents, irrespective of the state of affairs. He urged Babar to all the time take into consideration making use of strain no matter the probably consequence of the match.

“It is the captain’s job to apply pressure, a pacer is bowling and there is no slip? Four are required on 12 balls and you’ve taken backward point? Apply pressure. What do the Australians do? They take one to two wickets and then put all of their players in the circle to apply pressure, like they did against Pakistan.

“Captaining your nationwide facet is a matter of honour however it isn’t a mattress of roses. When you do good, everybody praises you and when you do not, everybody blames you in addition to the pinnacle coach,” Afridi added.