Coming down closely on Babar Azam’s captaincy within the T20 World Cup, together with Pakistan’s five-wicket defeat in opposition to England within the last in Melbourne, former Pakistani pacer Mohammad Amir termed Azam as not a courageous captain. Chasing Pakistan’s whole of 137 within the last, when England have been 45 for 3 in 5.4 overs at one stage, Amir criticized Azam for not giving the ball to left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz and never being courageous at that time .
“Unka batsman Harry brook Shadab se fasa hua tha. The armor of Vahan Mohammad Nawaz can be superb. Udhar apko wicket mil sakti thi. Fir wo kehte hain ki most important tanqeed karta hoon. Captain courageous hota hai, learn the state of affairs. Your courageous selections are usually not misplaced. Aur jab aap haarte ho toh yeh cheezen nazar aati hain. (Their batsman Harry Brooke was struggling in opposition to Shadab. Mohammad Nawaz additionally has a very good arm-ball. We might have taken a wicket there. He would say I criticize rather a lot. But the captain needs to be courageous and deal with the state of affairs. Must learn. You did not take courageous resolution. When you lose, such issues present up,” Aamir stated whereas speaking with 24 News HD.
In the ultimate, Pakistan captain Babar Azam didn’t bowl to Nawaz even after Shaheen Afridi was injured and Amir spoke of the shortage of belief in Nawaz. “Our bowlers bowled the best in the entire tournament. No team could hit us openly. The credit for this goes to our bowlers. But I did not understand the case of Mohammad Nawaz. After the first match, a video was made in the dressing room about Nawaz not being worried and his being our match winner. After that it didn’t look like he was playing as a batsman or a bowler in the tournament. It shows that you don’t trust your player and it’s only there to do such things. Nawaz bowled the first over of PSL. He could have done something in the final,” stated Aamir.
While Pakistan reached the knock-out stage after the Netherlands’ victory over South Africa, Amir additionally blamed the Pakistani batsmen for the workforce’s wrestle at essential moments within the event. The former pacer believed that Pakistani batsmen couldn’t maintain tempo with wickets aside from Sydney in Australia. “I speak with an understanding of cricket. We reached the finals and that’s a big deal. We didn’t deserve to reach the final and everyone knows how we reached the final. If you see the performance of our batsmen you will know. I said earlier that our batsmen should come out of Sydney. They would struggle outside Sydney and that’s what happened. I said earlier that if you get the same Melbourne wicket that you have got throughout the tournament, we will fight. It had to happen,” stated Aamir.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
