Afridi zeroed in on individual execution; doesn't have any desire to influence group's solidarity, says senior games columnist
May 25, 2024
Pakistan's left-arm fast Shaheen Shah Afridi has as of late turned down the Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) offer for bad habit captaincy close by captain Babar Azam — simply seven days in front of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 — which got the notice of cricketing circles.
Sources near Shaheen have affirmed that the choice board had offered the pacer to turn into the group's bad habit chief and captain Babar Azam's second in order, which he would not acknowledge.
The left-arm quick was "not ready" to assume the liability of bad habit captaincy for the public side which made wicketkeeper-cum-player Mohammad Rizwan a solid possibility for the post, group sources told Geo News. In the mean time, all-rounder Shadab Khan is likewise in the running for the job.
Senior games columnist Abdul Majid Bhatti told Geo News that Afridi treated it exceptionally in a serious way in the wake of being deprived of the T20 captaincy soon after five matches. He added that the pacer chose to zero in on his cricket as opposed to influencing the group's solidarity in front of the T20 World Cup.
Bhatti said that the pacer's father by marriage Shahid Afridi used to direct him in regards to his profession choices and the last option encouraged him to just zero in on execution which drove him to numerous chances to lead his side in future.
The senior columnist called attention to that Afridi had been announced Man of the Coordinate in his last two experiences with New Zealand in the five-match T20I series played in April.
He added that the public group was joined under the captaincy of Azam. Afridi neither needed to influence the group's solidarity nor wanted to participate in media hypotheses however to be centered around working on his presentation to assume an essential part in Pakistan's triumph.
Recently, Pakistan reported their crew for the T20 World Cup 2024, which starts on June 1 and will be played in the US and West Indies.
It is appropriate to realize that the board had delegated Shaheen as the group's T20 captain following Babar's abdication from the key post in November last year following the group's less than impressive execution in the 2023 Asia Cup and the ODI World Cup.
Later in Walk 2024, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) reestablished Babar Azam as the public side's white-ball commander in front of the Green Shirt's five-match T20I series against New Zealand which was played in April.
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