'Tu krly captaincy kanjar' - Fans brutally shut down Pakistan journalist for criticizing Babar Azam's captaincy in PSL 2023

Babar Azam is going through a lean patch as a captain of Peshawar Zalmi in the ongoing Pakistan Super League 2023. The team has lost the...

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Babar Azam is going through a lean patch as a captain of Peshawar Zalmi in the ongoing Pakistan Super League 2023. The team has lost two consecutive matches even after consecutively posting the big 240+ totals in the first innings. The team couldn’t defend both totals owing to the poor bowling intent in the second innings.

Although, Babar had a very smooth day in the office with the bat as he scored a century in Peshawar’s eighth match of the tournament against Quetta Gladiators; later, he also played a half-century knock of 73 knocks off just 39 balls with nine boundaries and two sixes to his name.

But his captaincy tactics have been under the scanner due to the unfavorable results in both the match against Quetta and Multan respectively. Subsequently, a Pakistan-based sports journalist Shoaib Jatt took to Twitter to criticize Babar Azam’s captaincy.

“241, 242, If a captain can't defend big totals in back-to-back games then we must say he doesn't know the art of captaincy ...... do you agree?????,” tweeted Shoaib Jatt in a tweet from his official Twitter handle.

Although this analysis from the ARY journalist didn’t go down well with ardent Babar Azam fans; they couldn’t hold back reacting with hard responses and brutally trolling Shoaib Jatt in the comment section of his tweet. Fans and a few of the sports journalists also reminded him that it was Tom-Kohler Cadmore who was the stand-in skipper of the team in the second innings when Babar was off-the-field.

Here's how fans reacted:

Speaking of the 27th match between Peshawar and Multan, the former’s skipper Babar Azam won the flip of the coin and decided to bat first. Zalmi managed to post a big total of 242 runs in the first innings; courtesy of the brilliant half-centuries from openers, Babar Azam (73 runs off 39 balls) and Saim Ayub (58 runs off 33 balls).

Although, they couldn’t defend this target against Multan; the star batter Rilee Rossouw smashed a blistering century of 121 runs off just 51 balls with 12 boundaries and eight sixes to his credit. Eventually, Multan Sultans won the match by four wickets to hand Peshawar the fifth defeat in the tournament.

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