Pakistan skipper Babar Azam to be sacked as national team captain – Reports

According to reports, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is evaluating whether Babar Azam should continue as captain of the national team in just one of the three formats. Due to his recent underwhelming performance in the home series Tests against New Zealand, England, and Australia, this option is being taken into consideration.

At the conclusion of the home season, decisions about the captaincy, along with head coach and bowling coach terms are anticipated. Another link in this chain is the choice by the new PCB Chairman Najam Sethi to designate Shan Masood as the vice-captain and the decision to lessen Babar Azam’s impact in all three forms.

Even earlier, there were rumors that the national cricket team could have individual captains for each of the three formats. Shan Masood is a leading candidate to succeed Babar Azam as the ODI and test cricket captain of the Pakistan Cricket Team. The Pakistan Cricket Board anticipates making some significant decisions in the near future about the captain, coach, bowling coach, and support staff.

Najam Sethi wants Mickey Arthur to rejoin Pakistan as head coach

However, Sethi is eager to have Arthur on his team and would offer him cricket-related advice. It is believed that Sethi and Arthur had a casual conversation in which they suggested Masood be promoted. Masood worked for Derbyshire last summer under Arthur. He amassed 1832 runs across all formats, but he was unable to carry his form into Pakistan’s domestic season. He scored a maximum of 35 while averaging 20.33 across six Test innings.

The new administration wishes to resume things as they were in 2018, when Sethi resigned following the election of former Pakistan captain Imran Khan as Prime Minister. Regional and departmental cricket has returned after Sethi dissolved the four-year-old domestic structure that was implemented after Imran’s election and restored it to the system that was in existence until 2018.

Mark Coles, the former head coach of the women’s team, was also reinstated by the PCB on a one-year contract; his initial tenure had come to an end when he left in 2019 claiming family obligations.

Ramiz and his board were replaced last month by a 14-member management committee headed by Sethi, who is also the PCB patron-in-chief. The committee has 120 days to reinstate the 2014 version of the PCB’s constitution, which was replaced in 2019.