Intikhab Alam on Misbah-ul-Haq and Waqar Younis: “If you gauge the performance of the coaching staff, there isn’t much improvement in the past couple of years”
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Former Pakistan cricketer Intikhab Alam said head coach Misbah-ul-Haq and bowling coach Waqar Younis haven’t really improved the team.
Intikhab Alam on Babar Azam: “If we wanted to give him [the] captaincy, it should have only been in Test cricket and ODIs. There should have been another captain in T20 cricket”
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Former all-rounder Intikhab Alam said Babar Azam should not be Pakistan’s T20 captain.
Intikhab Alam on Babar Azam: “I think there is too much pressure on him due to [the] captaincy in all formats, even if he himself says that this is not the case”
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Former Pakistan all-rounder Intikhab Alam said Babar Azam shouldn’t be captaining the national team in all three formats as he is under too much pressure.
Intikhab Alam: “No doubt it will be a great challenge for Babar as the tour of New Zealand is tough and Pakistan have to win the Test series there to make their position strong in the ICC Test Championship”
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Former Pakistan all-rounder Intikhab Alam said captain Babar Azam will have his work cut out for him during the upcoming tour of New Zealand.
Intikhab Alam on Azhar Ali: “I am not in favour of Azhar as skipper”
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Former Pakistan all-rounder Intikhab Alam has admitted that he never liked Azhar Ali as captain.
Intikhab Alam: “the pressure of captaincy [in three formats], can damage the performance of any individual and it happened in the past on a number of occasions with leading cricketers”
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Former Pakistan all-rounder Intikhab Alam said that captain Babar Azam is a good omen right now as he is scoring runs, but that could change in the future.
Intikhab Alam: “Personally, I think the PCB has put extra burden on young Babar and it is not easy for him to handle the pressure of international cricket in all three formats at this age”
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Former Pakistan all-rounder Intikhab Alam believes that Babar Azam is overburdened now that he has been named Test captain.
Intikhab Alam: “Mohammad Hasnain was also snubbed throughout despite tall claims made by the team management about him”
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Former Pakistan captain Intikhab Alam has questioned why pace bowler Mohammad Hasnain was in the World Cup squad if he didn’t play a single game.
Intikhab Alam: “Fakhar Zaman completely failed in the mega event but since prolific Abid Ali was not in the team, no replacement opener could come in the side”
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Former Pakistan captain Intikhab Alam believes that opener Fakhar Zaman “completely failed” to live up to expectations at the World Cup.
Intikhab Alam: “Shoaib Malik, skipper Sarfraz Ahmed and Mohammad Hafeez needed to play positively and lead from the front but ironically they have all failed to do so”
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Former Pakistan skipper Intikhab Alam believes that captain Sarfraz Ahmed and veteran all-rounders Mohammad Hafeez and Shoaib Malik have failed to live up to expectations in the ongoing World Cup.
