Follow UsBabar Azam’s 2025 Champions Trophy campaign has been heavily criticised, with former Pakistan cricketers and coaches lamenting the batter's poor show. However, former Pakistan cricketer Mohsin Khan made a startling statement, insisting that Virat Kohli is nothing compared to Babar Azam.
“First of all, let me tell you one thing. Virat Kohli is nothing compared to Babar Azam; Kohli is zero,” Mohsin told ARY News.
Furthermore, he also reckoned that Pakistan cricket has been destroyed because of ‘no planning, no strategies, no merit and no accountability’.
“We are not talking here about who is a better player and we are talking about Pakistan cricket. Which has been destroyed. There is no planning, no strategies, no merit, and there is no accountability at all. There is no accountability.”
On the other hand, former Pakistan cricketer Intikhab Alam too slammed the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) for sending Babar Azam as an opener. Alongside that, Alam also insisted that Babar should have been told to stay back and get a century.
“Why on earth will you send him to No. 1? He’s not an opener. No. 3 is the backbone of a batting lineup, and your best bet should come in that position and the coaches should have told him to stay there for the entire duration and get a century,” Alam said.
“If he got you a hundred and someone else chipped in with 50 or 60-odd, you’d have nearly 300 runs on the board, and that’s how you should be playing. Even Babar should have refused to change his batting position. I don’t know who convinced him to open the innings. It was a bad decision,” he said.