Babar Azam to be sacked as Pakistan white ball captain ahead of Australia tour, PCB to appoint same captain for for all-formats: Reports

Pakistan Cricket Board will sack Babar Azam from the white ball captaincy as the board didn't appoint him as one of the captains for the upcoming Champions One Day Cup. According to reports, the batter's leadership has been put under the scanner and is expected to be removed as Pakistan's white-ball captain. 

Babar Azam-led Pakistan cricket team failed to perform in the ODI World Cup 2023 and after that the side failed to perform in the T20 World Cup 2024 where they suffered their biggest loss against non Test playing nation USA. 

On the other hand, Pakistan Test captain Shan Masood also failed to register a win in the recently concluded two Test match series against Bangladesh. As Per Cricket Pakistan, he will also be sacked from captaincy. 

“Babar Azam is not being made the captain of the ODI Champions Cup team. This is a clear indication that he is not going to be the captain of the Pakistan cricket team in the eyes of the management. It is believed that the name of the new Pakistani captain will be announced at the end of this year. A new captain may be appointed for ODIs and T20s before the Australia tour” reported Geo News. 

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Rizwan will lead Pakistan in all formats

 

The source in Pakistan further said that if everyone agrees, then Rizwan can be made the captain. Not only this, but in future he can be appointed captain for all three formats. 

 

Mohammad Rizwan stats

 

Pakistan wicketkeeper batter Mohammad Rizwan, he has performed brilliantly in all formats for Pakistan for quite some time. During the Test series against Bangladesh, Rizwan played a brilliant innings of 171 runs in the first match. Rizwan has so far scored 1910 runs in 32 matches, 2088 runs in 74 ODIs and 3313 runs in 102 T20 matches for Pakistan. Now the Pakistan team will play the ODI series against Australia from November 4 and after that, the ICC Champions Trophy is also to be played in February next year. For this, the Pakistan Board would like to announce the new captain as soon as possible.

 

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