Srinagar: Former Pakistan cricketer Shahid Afridi has said that he wanted Babar Azam to prove him wrong on Captaincy.
“I wanted myself to be proven wrong. I wanted Babar to become a better captain with time, but that didn’t happen. Yes, he kept becoming a big player but I wanted him to become as big a captain as he is a player, honestly speaking, I couldn’t see in Babar what I was hoping [to see],” Shahid Afridi said while talking on a sports show.
“A leader doesn’t fear failure, he takes his chances with a full heart, especially when you are a good performer individually and there is no fear of losing your captaincy. He [Babar] has been the captain for four years now and I have never seen someone being a captain for this long, not just that, he also got the support of everyone.
“Why do you think a leader is a leader? Because he doesn’t think like the other 10 players in the ground. He [a captain] has to do different [out of the box] things, he takes decisions and faces [the consequences],” Afridi added.
Afridi then urged Babar to take the advice of five to six senior players that are in the squad.
“So I think that apart from the management and coach, Babar should communicate with 5-6 senior players because when you do that, those players start to give their all. I have played in this team, and I know you cannot just ask two to three players and ignore the others, this creates problems. You have to consider them all equally. So when you win, you all win and when you lose, you all lose.”