Big decision on Babur and Rizwan
The Pakistan Cricket Board has taken a big decision on veteran batsman Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan and the best fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi. According to the Pakistan Cricket Board, at present, the team of these three players does not need. Pakistan team’s performance has been very bad in T20 format for a long time, after which PCB has taken this decision. He has taken this decision before the T20 series to be played against West Indies and Bangladesh.
Pakistan selectors decided
The selectors of Pakistan have currently decided that Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi are not needed in the T20 series to be played against West Indies and Bangladesh. Both these series will be played in July and August. Pakistani selectors including Aqib Javed, Alim Dar Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq will also announce the team next week for the T20 series against West Indies and Bangladesh.
Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan have not been seen playing for Pakistan’s T20 team for a long time. Now Shaheen Shah Afridi has also joined this list. Pakistan head coach Mike Hessen has told the three players that they are not needed at the moment and they should do the entire focus on ICC World Test Championship and ODI cricket only. This means that now some young players can also get a place in the Pakistan T20 team and they can also be seen doing strong performance.
Shaheen won the title of PSL
Shaheen Shah Afridi captained the Lahore Kalandars team in the Pakistan Super League 2025. Under his captaincy, Lahore Kalandars has won the Pakistan Super League trophy three times in the last five seasons. Despite this, Shaheen Shah Afridi is also being ignored in T20 format. Talking about Babar Azam, he has not participated in the last five T20 series from the Pakistan team.
At this time, Salman Ali is captaining the captaincy of Pakistan’s T20 team and young players have also played their role well. Babar Azam can be seen playing in Test and ODI cricket on behalf of the national team, but if he needs, he can also return to the team in T20 format. Babar Azam can be seen playing for Sydney Sixers in the Big Bash League 2025-26 tournament played in Australia which will be played from December 28 to January.