ISLAMABAD – Pakistan head coach Misbah-Ul-Haq finally revealed the reasonfrom his side for sacking Sarfaraz Ahmed as captain of Pakistan’s Test andT20I side. There were a lot of criticisms going around the captaincy ofSarfraz Ahmed right from ICC Cricket World Cup 2019. A lot of comments weremade on his fitness and batting too. Some former players also wanted toname a new captain for Pakistan in place of Sarfraz Ahmed.
After all these around him, Sarfraz Ahmed was removed as the captain ofPakistan in Tests and T20Is. The decision has come as a result of thewhitewash against Sri Lanka at home in the recently concluded three-matchT20I series.
Right from the announcement from Pakistan Cricket Board, Sarfaraz Ahmed hasbecame the talk of the town. Even some fans were totally unhappy with thedecision and arranged some trends in social media quoting they want justicefor the wicket-keeper batsman. Now Pakistan’s new head coach Misbah-Ul-Haqrevealed the reason for removing the captaincy of the wicket-keeper batsmanin a sudden way. The head coach said that Sarfraz needs to find his oldform in the International cricket and so that the management wanted toremove a burden on his shoulder.
“There are all kinds of strange theories in the media but it’s a simplething, like the Chairman also said, it’s about Sarfaraz’s form & thepressure he was playing under. It was on the basis of that the decision toremove Sarfaraz from captaincy was taken,” Misbah-Ul-Haq said to thereporters.
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Sarfaraz Ahmed is not amongst runs nowadays as what the Misbah-Ul-Haq said.Now the wicket-keeper batsman is also dropped from the team for theirupcoming Australia tour where Azhar Ali and Babar Azam will take over newroles as captains of Pakistan in Tests and T20Is.
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