Shoaib Akhtar: ‘Babar Azam’s personality shows in his leadership’

“He (Babar) is unable to make the right calls. Had it been me, everyone knows what would have happened. That is a very simple thing,” said Akhtar, answering former cricketer Tanveer Ahmed’s question about how he would have handled the situation on a show called Silly Point.

“You cannot ask too much from this team, including the captain and the rest of the pack. You can’t ask too much. What can you expect from them? It’s a failure of the system. I think the investment we made in this system and the confidence we placed in it has failed,” he said.

Before Friday, Pakistan lost the first Test at Headingley by an innings and 103 runs and then the second Test to England at Lord’s by 194 runs. This led the Pakistan Cricket Board to remove seven players from the side and ship them back to Pakistan while also sacking head coach Sarfaraz Ahmed and his assistant Umar Gul with Pakistan white-ball coach Mike Hesson and former Australia seamer Ashley Noffke taking charge for the final Test.

PCB also announced an “internal disciplinary inquiry” with the data from the phones of two players reportedly copied by PCB.

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