Things have not been going well between Pakistan team captain Babar Azam and experienced opener Ahmed Shahzad for some time now. In fact, Ahmed Shahzad is not at all happy that Babar Azam is performing well in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024.

Not only this, before the start of this tournament, Ahmed Shahzad was also very disappointed as to why Babar Azam was once again appointed the captain of the Pakistan team after removing Shaheen Shah Afridi. Recently, in a show of Geo News Urdu, there was a discussion about the statistics between Pakistan captain Babar Azam and Ahmed Shahzad. Regarding these statistics, Ahmed Shahzad once again criticized Babar Azam fiercely in this show.

In this show, it was shown that Babar Azam has played 22 matches in the T20 tournament for Pakistan in which he scored 585 runs at an average of 27.85 and a strike rate of 112.06. At the same time, Ahmed Shahzad has 250 runs in 9 matches at an average of 31.25 and a strike rate of 126.90. When Ahmed Shahzad was asked a question about his strike rate on this show, he said, ‘These figures are not correct at all because when I was playing T20 cricket 8 years ago, it had just started at that time and we did not know anything about this format.

At the time when we were playing, the conditions were not good at all because the coach used to come and tell us that if you do not perform well in two matches, then the third match will be your last match. Not only this, he also used to say that the intentions of the boys sitting on the bench are not good and that is why we have to face defeat in the matches. You are playing cricket of the modern era. There is a lot of change in both. Where we used to get three lakhs, you are getting 50 lakh rupees. Cricket has changed a lot and we have improved ourselves a lot.

You have all the strengths a captain should have: Ahmed Shehzad

Ahmed Shahzad further said, ‘The captain should answer why we are lagging behind. A captain has all kinds of power. Babar Azam got so many opportunities but he did not make us win a single ICC event. He got all the players he asked for but nothing came out of it. During our time, we were asked for our statistics after two series. Babar Azam has been openly supported by the board and I have never seen this for any player before.

“Babar does not know what to do”
“I have no idea why this happened, I have no idea why this happened”
Babaji said this to his family members who have not yet fully understood pic.twitter.com/fUdrbjzZXU

— Geo News Urdu (@geonews_urdu) June 13, 2024

However, despite all the positive things, Babar Azam could not give results. His favorite players play in the team and the domestic players have been completely ignored. This is the reason why the domestic players of our country are now leaving Pakistan. If I talk about myself, then these are my 8 years old statistics and I could have done even better but I was not given a chance. Babar Azam is playing now and his strike rate is 112. He has not hit a single six in the powerplay.

Is this a joke? Your stats are even lower than mine. You are a fake king. We play to make Pakistan win ICC events but Babar Azam has not done that at all. Now Babar Azam should do one thing. He should tell everyone that I got a chance for 5 years but I could not capitalize on it. This is my mistake.