National Test team captain Shan Masood has expressed his views on re-elected captain Babar Azam taking over the leadership in white ball cricket.
Shan Masood said that there is a new set-up in the board, the new selection committee will also have some plan, so they are making Shaheen rest, trying to manage his workload. Because last year, Naseem Shah was surrounded by injuries before the World Cup, which Pakistan had to suffer.
Despite the changes in leadership, Shan Masood reiterated the team’s unity and determination for the common goal of Pakistan’s success.
He said that as players, we have a common goal to ensure that the Pakistani team performs well, whoever is leading, the players are with him.
Earlier yesterday, former captain Rashid Latif said that Babar Azam has taken revenge from Shaheen by accepting the captaincy in the white ball format.
After losing the series against Afghanistan, Shadab Khan made a powerful statement, he said, ‘This team is not complete without Babar and Rizwan.” That means I am not the captain, the same was expected of Shaheen when Babar was removed. If Shaheen had taken this step that day, he would not be seeing all this today.
After poor performance in the ICC World Cup held in India, Babar Azam announced to leave the captaincy in all three formats, later the board named Shaheen Afridi as the T20 captain and Shan Masood as the Test captain while announcing the captaincy in the ODI format. was not done.
After just one series against New Zealand, Shaheen was removed from the captaincy and reassigned to Babar Azam, since then there have been reports of grouping in the team.
