{"id":390830,"date":"2023-11-15T13:48:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/11\/15\/babar-azam-steps-down-from-pakistan-cricket-team-captaincy-after-cricket-world-cup-2023-debacle-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T13:48:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:48:00","slug":"babar-azam-steps-down-from-pakistan-cricket-team-captaincy-after-cricket-world-cup-2023-debacle-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2023\/11\/15\/babar-azam-steps-down-from-pakistan-cricket-team-captaincy-after-cricket-world-cup-2023-debacle-cricket-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar Azam Steps Down From Pakistan Cricket Team Captaincy After Cricket World Cup 2023 Debacle | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-11\/re85tq28_babar-azam_625x300_13_November_23.jpg?im=FaceCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=806,height=605\" title=\"Babar Azam Steps Down From Pakistan Cricket Team Captaincy After Cricket World Cup 2023 Debacle\" class=\"caption\"\/><\/div>\n<p>File photo of Pakistan cricketer Babar Azam<span class=\"sp_cred\">\u00a9 AFP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-maxheight=\"190\">\n<div><b class=\"place_cont\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Babar Azam has stepped down as Pakistan cricket team skipper following his team&#8217;s disappointing run in the Cricket World Cup 2023. Pakistan lost five out of their nine matches and failed to qualify for the semifinals. Babar himself did not have a great outing in the tournament with 320 runs from 9 matches. The cricketer came under a lot of pressure from both experts and fans regarding his captaincy and his lack of form with the bat did not help matters. Currently, Shadab Khan was the vice-captain of Pakistan&#8217;s World Cup team with Shaheen Afridi among the probable names to take over as the next skipper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I vividly remember the moment when I received the call from PCB to lead Pakistan in 2019. Over the past four years, I&#8217;ve experienced many highs and lows on and off the field, but I wholeheartedly and passionately aimed to maintain Pakistan&#8217;s pride and respect in the cricket world. Reaching the number 1 spot in the white-ball format was a result of the collective efforts of players, coaches, and management but I&#8217;d like to express my gratitude to passionate Pakistan cricket fans for their unwavering support during this journey. Today, I am stepping down as the captain of Pakistan in all formats. It&#8217;s a difficult decision but I feel it is a right time for this call,&#8221; he posted on social media platform X (formerly called Twitter).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8hZqS9JH0M\">pic.twitter.com\/8hZqS9JH0M<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Babar Azam (@babarazam258) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/babarazam258\/status\/1724780099101233253?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I will continue to represent Pakistan as a player in all three formats. I am here to support the new captain and the team with my experience and dedication. I want to express my sincere thanks to the Pakistan Cricket Board for entrusting me with this significant responsibility. PAKISTAN ZINDABAD,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tgs\">\n<p>Topics mentioned in this article<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.ndtv.com\/cricket\/babar-azam-steps-down-from-pakistan-captaincy-after-world-cup-debacle-4576857\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] File photo of Pakistan cricketer Babar Azam\u00a9 AFP Babar Azam has stepped down as Pakistan cricket team skipper following his team&#8217;s disappointing run in the Cricket World Cup 2023. Pakistan lost five out of their nine matches and failed to qualify for the semifinals. Babar himself did not have a great outing in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":390831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6370,33540],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}