Babar’s out, but there is still hope for Pakistan

 

KARACHI:
Pakistan skipper Babar Azam is out of the three-match T20I series against New Zealand with a thumb injury, and this may prove to be the final nail in Men in Green’s coffin who were already not a 100 per cent after visiting the no-Covid haven.

Pakistani players already had a lot of baggage to deal with as they had to quarantine in isolation for 14 days, where they were warned after protocol breaches, lost the exemption to start training after just 10 days in isolation, saw no less than 10 fellow players test positive for coronavirus – all this mental exhaustion even before the series had started.

And now with their leader out of the T20Is and the vice-captain Shadab Khan also doubtful to participate, there won’t be a lot of confidence left their tank.

Babar’s omission doesn’t only deprive Pakistan of a young and able captain on the field, but all batsmen will now be looking at each other so as to ascertain that who will take his place as the anchor at the opening spot or the upper middle-order.

Babar’s consistency and his run-scoring form was one of the key factors Pakistan were hoping to bank on when the New Zealand series started.  With an average of nearly 51 and a strike rate of approximately 130 in T20Is, there is no other batsman in the Pakistani line-up who can come even close to right-handed batsman.

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