Former Pakistan wicket-keeper batsman Kamran Akmal has revealed in a current interview that he had suggested present Pakistan captain Babar Azam to take again the management position in 2019.
Speaking to Hafiz Muhammad Imran in a YouTube session after Pakistan’s loss to Sri Lanka within the Asia Cup remaining, Akmal stated, “When I got here to know that he was being appointed because the captain, I instructed him, ‘ I do not suppose you must develop into the captain now. You ought to carry out extensively for the following two-three years….The batting lineup at current is as much as you.”
Akmal additional stated that he steered a younger Babar Azam to make his identify like Virat Kohli and Steve Smith.
“I told him, ‘If you score 35-40 centuries in this time, you will be able to manage the team as well as enjoy the team as a captain. The responsibility will surely fall on you once Sarfaraz is gone’ But now is not the right time.’ I told this to him then but it was his own decision.”
Akmal, who performed his final match for Pakistan in 2017, admitted that eradicating Babar from the captaincy after the Asia Cup would now be an enormous mistake for Pakistan cricket, but in addition famous that corrections have been wanted.
“Now he has matured as a captain,” he stated. “It would be a big mistake if they replace him now,” he stated. But it needs to be higher the best way he has captained within the Asia Cup remaining. Prior to this his captaincy was glorious. He used his bowlers properly. He used Nawaz so much. But when your kind shouldn’t be good, you’ll be able to regulate your self within the lineup for the workforce.”
“Rizwan (Muhammad) may be sent at three o’clock or he (Babur) may do so himself, made to open the fakhar (Zaman).”
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
