England s Lewis Gregory, left, celebrates the dismissal of Haris Rauf, right in the second one-day international at Lord s on July 10. AP
EVER since Sarfaraz Ahmed and Mickey Arthur were shown the door by the powers-that-be, the think-tank of Pakistan cricket thought it had made the right call to remove the captain and the head coach after they were unable to lead the national team beyond the league phase of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup in the United Kingdom.
While Arthur has since moved on to take charge of Sri Lanka, Sarfaraz now mostly sulks in the shadow of Mohammad Rizwan the ousted captain’s full-time successor as the wicket-keeper/batter with the burden of leadership thrust on the shoulders of Babar Azam, who had never any major experience of captaincy either at the domestic or international level.
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