Pakistan captain Babar Azam shouldered the duty for his workforce’s underwhelming efficiency within the T20 World Cup 2024, attributing their exit to a collective failure reasonably than inserting blame on particular person gamers.
Pakistan’s T20 World Cup marketing campaign ended with a whimper, failing to progress to the Tremendous 8 stage. This marked a major disappointment for a workforce thought of to be among the many contenders.
Babar Azam acknowledges workforce’s underperformance
In his final press convention on the event, Azam acknowledged the shortcomings of his workforce. “We didn’t play effectively as a workforce. It’s not that we misplaced due to one particular person. As a workforce, we misplaced. As a workforce we weren’t capable of click on. Typically we did effectively with our bowling however we didn’t do effectively in batting. The pitches right here – you noticed that they helped the quick bowlers slightly. However I believe our batting didn’t click on,” he stated.
Babar’s contemplations adopted an exhilarating however finally insignificant three-wicket win over Eire on Sunday. The match held no bearing on the event’s general end result, provided that each Pakistan and Eire had been already out of Tremendous 8 contentions. From Group A, India and the USA progressed to the subsequent spherical.
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“It’s the fault of all of the 15 gamers”: Babar
Babar additionally highlighted his workforce’s lack of ability to capitalize on early alternatives and end robust.
“When the video games had been in our arms – we misplaced wickets due to which we misplaced two essential matches [against the USA and India]. We had been going forward and the strain was on the opposite workforce. However whenever you lose back-to-back wickets, you recognize the strain builds. There are some dot balls, the place you need to construct partnerships. When the strain builds, you’re taking possibilities. Right this moment, you noticed that we had been going simply, however then the back-to-back wickets fell. There was slightly strain and we took the sport deep,” remarked Azam.
“The expectations that we had product of the workforce, the best way our senior gamers had been, we didn’t execute. We couldn’t ship at completely different occasions. So, we settle for that as a participant and as a captain, I don’t wish to blame anybody. I don’t wish to level out that it’s their fault. It’s the fault of all of the 15 gamers.
“As a workforce, we didn’t play. We’re shedding as a workforce. I’m not saying this due to one particular person. You might be mentioning that due to the captain… I can’t play in each participant’s place. There are 11 gamers and every of them has a job. That’s why they got here right here to play the World Cup. I believe we as a workforce haven’t been capable of apply, comply with and end issues. We’ve to cool down and settle for that we didn’t play effectively as a workforce,” the Pakistani skipper added.
