Is Virat Kohli the main reason for Babar Azam leaving the captaincy? Shocking claim of Pakistani media

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|02-10-2024

Finally what happened for which many cricket fans of Pakistan were waiting. Babar Azam has left ODI and T20 captaincy. Babar Azam was the captain of Pakistan's ODI and T20 team but he has now resigned from this post. Babar Azam announced his resignation from captaincy on social media. But the question here is why did Babar Azam leave the captaincy? PCB did not even ask Babar Azam to leave the captaincy. There are reports that there was talk of keeping Babar Azam as the captain till the Champions Trophy but despite this the player left the captaincy. However, Pakistani media claims that Virat Kohli is a major reason for Babar Azam leaving the captaincy.

Babar was persuaded to leave captaincy by taking Virat's name?

Geo News journalist Arfa Firoz Jake claims that Babar Azam was under a lot of pressure after the crushing defeat in the T20 World Cup 2024 and this was the biggest reason for his leaving the captaincy. However, this journalist also claimed that Babar Azam was persuaded by his close friends to leave the captaincy by giving the example of Virat Kohli. Just as Virat Kohli had left the captaincy of Team India in 2021, in the same way Babar Azam has also taken this decision and now he wants to concentrate on his game.

Babar did not want to become captain again

Geo News journalist also claims that Babar Azam did not want to become the captain of Pakistan again but his family forced him to play this role again. But this decision of Babar Azam proved to be completely wrong. Babar Azam had made up his mind to leave the captaincy and that is why he did not become the captain in the recently held Champions ODI Cup in Pakistan.

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