There’s a certain sadness about Babar Azam‘s mortality

The original view is that telling Babar Azam that he is going to be fired should be an indication that Azhar Ali has been chosen. Welcome to the group. This is the chaos you will face until you stay calm. Would you consider clearing it up ASAP? from all of JD. He is probably a kind, caring person who wants to take responsibility for telling Babar that he is going to be fired. This cannot have been an easy decision and it is almost unbelievable that Azhar’s Test career ended under Babar’s captaincy, perhaps earlier than Azhar would have liked.

The original view was that Babar Azam being told he would be sacked should be an indication that Azhar Ali has been chosen. Welcome to the group. This is the chaos you will face until you remain calm. Will you consider clearing it up soon?

Today, of course, the team is carefully avoiding the idea of ​anyone being left behind. As the PCB put it in its announcement of its speech, “Publish”. Given the recent results and sentiments following the communication that Babar was “leaving the team”, you can imagine Floyd losing, right?

Despite the semantics, it is a big call. A big call, even. So big that it is hard to recall a bigger event in Pakistan’s recent history (perhaps Inzi after the 2003 World Cup). Prominent players have been banned, punished, forced into retirement, yes, but not for reasons as mundane as paper? There is no doubt that, in the debate, none have been bigger than Babar, Pakistan’s greatest batsman, and until recently their captain believed so, and – because they matter – in Pakistan’s cricket interests. Of course, there is the incredible effort from the board, who are now pressing hard to help elevate him to the last spot. The simultaneous absence of Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah in the second Test raised the possibility of a drop in stars, but Pakistan always believed their fast bowlers would be useful. Babar.r. is the epicente.

So yes, it is a big call. Is this something that Pakistan should do? Is this the call that changes their destiny?

That is a statement worth cutting, in a way. There is a new select group in town. Pakistan suffered another record loss. Major change was deemed necessary. In no Test of the series must a scapegoat be found and the captain cannot be let off. So the former manager was fired. Although by PCB’s standards the selection committee was a mixed bag that included Aaqib Javed and Aleem Dar, Asad Shafiq and Azhar Ali, they shared their vision for Babar. Given that the technical director and coach were not involved in the decision and their demand to move on, it would be logical to assume that they were unhappy with the decision. 

There is a distinct feeling that the rest will be good for Babar, who needs the relief most. The last few years have been particularly exhausting and toxic.

Yet he was able to see it on a rational level. It’s not about batting and coming back, because those are debatable. Yes, the numbers aren’t that big. Yes, he’ll be fired early and on time. Yes, he’s been beaten home and away. Yes, his pace and spin have gone down. From a time perspective, two years without a half century may seem like a long time, but no, without nine Tests, it doesn’t seem that long. That’s part of the problem. Pakistan don’t play many Tests, and the Tests they do play are inconsistent. For example, that two-year period includes six months without Tests, then about five months without Tests, and about eight months without Tests again. How do you leave your job and start running in these stop start times? For example, Ollie Pope’s failure in a few Tests was no problem because almost every Test was coming up and he had to fix everything. If Pope gets into trouble, he knows he can turn to England’s 2021 basketball coach, Marcus Trescothick. Babar? Speed dating takes up more time than Babar has spent with some of his recent coaches. So, given his record and the general view that he is Pakistan’s best batsman, keeping him out of the remaining two Tests against England is far from a high risk. Only the sense of run or form is good for him and what he needs most is decompression. The past few years have been particularly tiring and problematic. Get rid of the manager, give back some of the manager and then have to give it back badly with every storm of management behaviour, so to speak, let’s talk about his performance in T20s and ODIs. The culture of the battle of wills; his obsessive, reinforced review without competitive runs, the removal of his lacklustre captaincy or the development of group related arguments and discord in the team. On the contrary, rest should be seen as a period of recovery. He established himself as a professional basketball player in early 2019, rose to the top of the world in 2020 and soon became a global superstar. The endless competition, festival rush and the negative effects that come with it can make this time unrealistic. It’s worth trying to figure this out. Maybe he can focus on his real work by hitting the club with someone and rediscovering what makes him so great.

The result is of course the risk, because in a Pakistani environment and in an environment as exhausting as the current one, real restarts are rare… the result is to try to break his back to make a decision that he cannot make with him. to relax. as much as the leader. There is a reason why many Pakistani players are reluctant to rest because they are very well aware of the poor quality of Pakistan’s selection. Babar should not be an ordinary Pakistani cricketer. He looks like a real batsman and one day we will look back on him as the greatest batsman in Pakistani history, teaching pace and bounce in Australia and South Africa and holding the seams and swinging in England and New Zealand, looting domestically and. in the subcontinent, perhaps even winning the world championship in the meantime. . There was a bit of death around him and suddenly he felt the tremors and shaking of an ordinary sportsman. In the long run, staying away from the game won’t be so bad. Call it a life lesson. In the short run, it’s not comforting at all.