Pakistan’s captain Shan Masood speaks throughout a press convention on the Gaddafi Cricket Stadium in Lahore on November 29, 2023. —AFPShan believes Babar Azam will come again a stronger participant.He’ll at all times be one in every of fundamental batsmen for Pakistan: Shan Masood.Skipper says there isn’t any hurt in being pulled out at occasions.
Star batsman Babar Azam may benefit from a break after being dropped from the Pakistan take a look at squad, red-ball captain Shan Masood mentioned as he backed the batter to rediscover his finest type.
Babar stepped down as skipper in all three codecs final 12 months after Pakistan did not make the knockout stage of the 50-overs World Cup. He returned as white-ball captain in March for the T20 World Cup, the place the staff didn’t make the Tremendous Eight.
The out-of-form batsman, who as soon as once more gave up the captaincy final month, was then dropped for the second and third Checks in opposition to England in October after scoring simply 35 runs throughout each innings in Pakistan’s defeat within the first Check.
Babar’s absence from the Pakistan set-up is ready to be temporary, nonetheless, with the 30-year-old named within the one-day worldwide and Twenty20 squads for this month’s tour of Australia.
Requested about Babar’s future, Shan informed the BBC’s ‘Stumped’ podcast on Saturday: “I think he’s one of the best batsmen in the world. I’m nobody to deny him a future. He has every quality to be one of the greatest batsmen in Test cricket.
“He is at all times there or thereabouts within the rankings. Typically, folks want a break. I personally suppose this break will do him a substantial amount of profit and he’ll come again a stronger participant.
“There’s no harm in being pulled out at times and having a breather. He’s played a lot of cricket and gone through a lot, and he’ll always be one of the main batsmen to play for Pakistan.”
Pakistan subsequent play a Check in December in a two-match collection in opposition to South Africa.
