Babar Azam has become a burden on Pakistan, left the team in trouble for the 18th consecutive time.

Rahul Tiwari

khelja|10-10-2024

The bad phase of Pakistan cricket team's star batsman Babar Azam continues. On one hand, he had to leave the captaincy for the second time within 10 years, on the other hand, he is failing in the reason for leaving the captaincy also. Babar Azam, who was considered the lifeblood of Pakistani batting, now seems to be becoming a burden on the team. Babar Azam, who failed in the first innings of the first Test match against England in Multan, also failed in the second innings and once again left the team in trouble. That too, when just a few hours ago Babar Azam had made such a mistake in fielding, the consequences of which the Pakistani team had to suffer in the form of a big score for England.

left the team in trouble again

On Thursday, October 10, the fourth day of the match, England declared its first innings at 823 runs and thus gained a lead of 267 runs. Pakistani batting collapsed badly in the second innings. Abdullah Shafiq, who scored a century in the first innings for just 29 runs, and captain Shan Masood returned to the pavilion. At such a time, Babar Azam came to the crease and he had a chance to play a big innings and get the team out of this trouble. This should not have been too difficult on the flat pitch of Multan but Babar's form was so bad that he failed here too and was caught by the wicketkeeper after scoring only 5 runs. Even in the first innings, he could score only 30 runs and thus, in the 18th consecutive Test innings, Babar Azam could not even reach a half-century and left the team in trouble.

had given up an easy catch

Before this, the English batsmen once again thrashed the Pakistani bowlers. Joe Root and Harry Brook scored a lot of runs and took the team to an astonishing score of 823 runs. One reason for this was Babar Azam, who dropped an easy catch of Joe Root in the first session of the day itself. At that time Root was playing on 186 runs. Now the opportunity for a wicket came with great difficulty but Babar hurt the team there too. The result was that Root scored a brilliant double century and was out after scoring 262 runs. On the other hand, Harry Brook scored a double century for the first time in his career and then converted it into a triple century.

Pakistan batted first in the match and scored a huge score of 556 runs in the first innings. In this, Shan Masood and Abdullah Shafiq had scored centuries. Now it seems that even after scoring such a big score, the Pakistani team can lose this test match. Pakistan has not won a single test match at home for the last three and a half years. Since then, Pakistan has played 10 Test matches at home but has not been able to win even a single one. Out of these, it has lost 6 and 4 have been draws.

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