Former captain and coach Misbah-ul-Haq believes some folks within the Pakistan Cricket Board try to weaken the place of present skipper Babar Azam and mentioned this can have an adversarial affect on the crew’s dressing room. “Cricket is my blood and I watch cricket matches and read about cricket all the time. And from what I see Babar Azam’s position in the team is being weakened,” Misbah advised reporters in Lahore on Tuesday.

Misbah, who was advised to resign by former chairman Ramiz Raja as head coach in September 2021 though he had a three-year contract with the board, mentioned that one can see this simply by watching the press conferences of Babar.

“Look at some of the questions being asked to him what do they indicate he is being weakened as a captain and I am afraid that will have adverse effects on the team’s dressing room.” Misbah, who held the all highly effective positions of head coach and chief selector in 2019-2020, mentioned if the cricket board had points with Babar’s captaincy then they need to sit down with him and the selectors and talk about it throughout the desk.

“If you put pressure on someone like this it eventually will disturb the team and that is not good for Pakistan cricket.” Misbah, who is Pakistan’s most successful Test captain, feels frequent changes had weakened and disturbed the Test squad and it reflected in the team’s performance against England and New Zealand in recent time.

“Test groups are constructed after a number of laborious work and time and frequent modifications do not assist. We had take a look at aspect however the modifications disturbed the whole lot,” he said.

Misbah said if the PCB wanted to make changes it should talk to Babar openly so that there is no bad blood in future.

“Pakistan little question has an excellent white ball squad so not less than in these codecs they’re no issues in any respect. I personally would assist Babar to the tip,” he added.

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