As Pakistan eye for a successor to Babar Azam, who just lately stepped down because the ODI and T20I captain, former Pakistan cricketer Mudassar Nazar believes keeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan is the frontrunner for the job. This, regardless of the highest administration not solely satisfied with the 32-year-old.
Talking to Cricket Pakistan, Nazar mentioned, “Proper now, they don’t have any selection left. They’ve tried everybody besides Rizwan. They’ll should make Rizwan the captain. I don’t suppose the inside circle and high administration are very proud of Rizwan, however they’ll be compelled to decide on him.
Earlier this week, Babar Azam acknowledged in a social media submit that he was stepping down from the captaincy to ‘take pleasure in my batting’ and ‘focus extra power on my recreation and private development’.
Babar has been underneath scrutiny owing to his current type throughout codecs. This has coincided with Pakistan’s poor outings on the current ICC tournaments – 2023 ODI World Cup and 2024 T20 World Cup – underneath his captaincy.
Pakistan’s woes have prolonged to the longest format, having been just lately whitewashed 2-0 by Bangladesh at dwelling underneath Shan Masood.
It’s why Nazar believes Rizwan is more likely to be an all-format captain for Pakistan.
“In any other case, in the event that they go for a youthful participant, it can flip into the identical state of affairs like with Babar Azam. It’s higher to make a senior participant the captain after which groom somebody underneath him. In my view, it might be higher for Pakistan to make Rizwan the captain for all three codecs,” he says.
Pakistan are set to face England subsequent in a three-match Check collection at dwelling, beginning October 7 in Multan.
