Mohammad Hafeez: “Calling them key players would be wrong and unfair. Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan are not Pakistan cricket’s key players at the moment. Key players are those who win matches for Pakistan”
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Former Pakistan all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez honestly believes that batsmen Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan can no longer be classed as key players.
Faheem Ashraf: “The way Babar plays his shots, if you demand that from me, that is wrong. Similarly, if you ask Babar to hit 6 sixes in an over, that’s wrong. If you ask Babar to stay out there and win the game, he will do it in his own way”
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Pakistan all-rounder Faheem Ashraf believes it is wrong for people to expect batsman Babar Azam to hit six sixes in an over.
Saeed Ajmal: “You have only one star. If you degrade him also, then how will your cricket run? These are the big issues. Our former cricketers should keep their mouths shut”
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Legendary spinner Saeed Ajmal has slammed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for dropping batsman Babar Azam from the T20I team.
Tanvir Ahmed: “I am the same person who said when Imam came into the team that it was a wrong decision, and today I say that dropping Imam from the ODI team is wrong”
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Former Pakistan fast bowler Tanvir Ahmed believes it was wrong for opening batsman Imam-ul-Haq to be dropped from the ODI team.
Shahid Afridi: “Once they made Shaheen captain it was also wrong for the PCB to remove him as captain after just one series. It affected him”
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Legendary Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi said left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi has been affected by the captaincy debacle that took place at the beginning of 2024.
Basit Ali: “Abdullah Shafique, Babar Azam, and Saud Shakeel batted as if it was a very difficult pitch like what we get in Australia and England. They didn’t play according to the pitch and were only concerned about taking their turns, which is wrong”
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Former Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali has hinted that the batting trio of Babar Azam, Abdullah Shafique and Saud Shakeel played for themselves in the first Test against England.
Mushtaq Ahmed: “Saeed Anwar often says, ‘If you have 346 wickets in international cricket, 300 of them are wrong’. When I asked how, he said, ‘You and Moin have taken these wickets by making incorrect appeals'”
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Legendary Pakistan spinner Mushtaq Ahmed has revealed that iconic opening batsman Saeed Anwar told him that out of the 346 international wickets he took, “300 of them are wrong”.
Basit Ali: “The report is being prepared against Shaheen Afridi and Mohammad Rizwan that they have formed a separate group, which is wrong. Don’t put your blame on the others. Otherwise, Pakistan cricket will be destroyed”
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Former Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali is genuinely concerned that left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi and wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan will be blamed for all the problems the national team is encountering at the moment.
Pakistan batsman Umar Amin: “I don’t agree with the tag of only [being a] red-ball player”
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Pakistan top order batsman Umar Amin believes it is wrong of people to classify him as a red-ball specialist as he feels he can excel in all three formats.
Harsha Bhogle: “When there was a dip in Kohli’s form, Babar was on the up. This year (2023), Babar averages around 22-23 but that doesn’t mean he is a bad player”
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Respected cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle believes it is wrong for people to think Pakistan batsman Babar Azam is a “bad player” just because he had a subpar year in 2023.