Fans also sided with Akhtar, 47, and criticized Babar Azam for playing a Test-like knock in an ODI match in his two-word tweet that quickly went viral.
The strike rate of Babar Azam has been a major topic of discussion across formats. His inability to score quickly has hurt Pakistan recently, and his own country’s former cricketers are not impressed with him.
Shahid Afridi, Pakistan’s new interim chief selector, recently stated that in the game’s shortest format, he will not select players whose strike rate is less than 135 percent.
With a strike rate of 127.55, Babar, who leads Pakistan in T20Is, was widely expected to be dropped.
In order to avoid receiving such criticism each time he takes the field, the Pakistani skipper will need to work on his cricket, reevaluate his game, and devise strategies for scoring quickly.
