Saeed Ajmal has expressed his admiration for Babar Azam and revealed that he at all times yearned for a batter like him within the nationwide group throughout his enjoying days.
Whereas chatting with Cricket Pakistan in an unique interview, Ajmal stated that having a participant like Babar within the group would have made a big distinction.
Ajmal additionally spoke a few current assertion he made relating to Babar Azam, the place he talked about that Pakistan wants extra “egocentric” batters like him.
“For so long as I performed cricket, I at all times wished to have a batter like Babar Azam within the group that might keep on the crease and rating runs patiently, in order that bowlers can get a slight edge or not less than one thing to defend, not to mention bowl aggressively. Nonetheless, at the moment, our bowlers have been fairly weak. Now when the batting is powerful, bowling has been feeble currently. That’s the reason earlier I discussed that we’d like two or three extra gamers like Babar Azam, which wasn’t meant to criticize anybody however solely to indicate that it’ll solely strengthen the group,” Ajmal stated.
Given Babar’s distinctive achievements, Ajmal believes it’s essential for the group and the followers to completely assist him.
“If one among your gamers is topping the rating charts in T20Is, ODIs and in addition stands amongst high ten within the Check format – with that he is in a position to pull off the quickest 5000 runs, accumulating highest quantity of runs – conclusively he is holding the all of the important data to his identify. Then why would not and should not we assist him?” he questioned.
Acknowledging that Babar might have some flaws in his captaincy, Ajmal means that these shortcomings will be addressed.
“I agree that he may need some captaincy flaws, however that may be sorted by instructing him, by mentoring him in a clever manner. His batting is flawless, and there’s no want for undue criticism on that,” he concluded.