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Babar’s role is to play through the middle overs. | Photo Credit: AFP Pakistan head coach Mike Hesson on Friday (February 20, 2026) explained his team’s decision to not send talisman Babar Azam at No. 4 in its last group-stage game against Namibia, stating that he would not have been ‘‘the best person to come…
Pakistan’s Babar Azam, right, in action during the second ODI cricket match against Sri Lanka, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on November 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan batting star Babar Azam was fined 10% of his match fee and handed a demerit point for hitting the stumps with his bat after being dismissed in the…
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Pakistan’s Babar Azam. File. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan has recalled Babar Azam and fast bowler Naseem Shah to the Twenty20 squad after nearly a year for the next week’s home series against South Africa and a subsequent tri-series involving Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. Babar, the world’s second leading scorer in T20 internationals, is back…
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Pakistan’s fast bowler Haris Rauf has been retained for the ICC Twenty20 World Cup squad. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Pakistan retained fast bowler Haris Rauf when announcing on May 24 their 15-man squad for the Twenty20 World Cup, despite doubts over his fitness and lack of match practice. The 30-year-old injured his shoulder during…
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Pakistan’s cricket team skipper Babar Azam addresses a press conference ahead of the T20 series against Ireland, England and the T20 World Cup, in Lahore, Pakistan, on May 6, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan limited overs skipper Babar Azam is optimistic that Gary Kirsten’s appointment as head coach of Pakistan’s white ball side will…
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Pakistan’s Babar Azam rewrote history by scoring 409 fours in 107 innings eclipsing Ireland’s Paul Stirling record of 407 boundaries. | Photo Credit: AP Pakistan captain Babar Azam rewrote history by breaking the record for the most number of fours in men’s T20I history. During Pakistan’s thrilling win in the final over against New Zealand…
Pakistan captain Babar Azam replaces fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi as the T20 captain. File | Photo Credit: AP Former Pakistan skipper Babar Azam was on March 31 reappointed as the white-ball captain, two months ahead of the T20 World Cup. The decision was taken after a unanimous recommendation from the Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB)…
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Babar Azam set down conditions to PCB for accepting captainship in white ball formats including having a say in appointment of coaches. | Photo Credit: The HIndu PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi has offered Babar Azam captaincy in the white ball formats but the star player has not yet made his decision, sources have claimed. It…
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File picture of chief selector of the Pakistan cricket squad Inzamam-ul-Haq | Photo Credit: AP Former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has stepped down as Pakistan Cricket Board’s (PCB) chief selector on Sunday after allegations of a conflict of interest. His resignation comes after Pakistani media reported one of his co-directors in a U.K.-based company, Yazoo International Ltd,…
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Pakistan captain Babar Azam has scored only two fifties in this World Cup. His captaincy has been questioned and he has faced accusations of lacking aggression in field settings | Photo Credit: B. Jothi Ramalingam Pakistan’s chances of making the semifinals of the Cricket World Cup are on a knife-edge after their eight-wicket defeat to…
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