{"id":24839,"date":"2023-11-15T13:34:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/babar-azam-says-stepping-down-as-captain-from-all-formats\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T13:34:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T13:34:22","slug":"babar-azam-says-stepping-down-as-captain-from-all-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/babar-azam-says-stepping-down-as-captain-from-all-formats\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar Azam says stepping down as captain from all formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Skipper Babar Azam has announced he is stepping down as captain from all cricket formats.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes shortly after he met Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Interim Management Committee Chairman Zaka Ashraf in Lahore on Wednesday, following the cricket team\u2019s dismal performance in the ICC World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Footage aired on television showed Babar\u2019s car being hounded by fans and journalists as he left the PCB headquarters at the Gaddafi Stadium after meeting Ashraf.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports suggested the meeting revolved around the future of Babar\u2019s captaincy of the squad. Babar has been captain of the Test and ODI teams since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <em>Dawn.com<\/em> correspondent, Ashraf also met team director Mickey Arthur, head coach Grant Bradburn and other members of the interim management committee.<\/p>\n<p>The development comes after the cricket team\u2019s disastrous performance in the World Cup, where the Green Shirts lost five of their nine games including a seven-wicket <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1781048\">mauling by India<\/a> in front of more than 100,000 fans in Ahmedabad. Pakistan also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1783074\">lost to Afghanistan<\/a> for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Former captain Younis Khan and former pacers Wahab Riaz and Sohail Tanvir had met Ashraf on Tuesday as the PCB began its inquest on Pakistan\u2019s performance at the World Cup and plans for the upcoming Test series against Australia.<\/p>\n<p>It was learnt by <em>Dawn<\/em> that the trio had advised Ashraf not to make wholesale changes ahead of the tour of Australia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1789376\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>With ODI cricket not high on the agenda for the next years, the former players had also instructed the PCB chief to shift focus to red-ball cricket and it was also learnt that Younis might be offered a coaching assignment to groom youngsters in Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>It should be recalled that earlier this week bowling coach Morne Morkel had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1789080\">become the first man to quit<\/a> Pakistan\u2019s backroom staff following the team\u2019s failure to reach the World Cup semi-finals.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skipper Babar Azam has announced he is stepping down as captain from all cricket formats. The announcement comes shortly after he met Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Interim Management Committee Chairman Zaka Ashraf in Lahore on Wednesday, following the cricket team\u2019s dismal performance in the ICC World Cup. Footage aired on television showed Babar\u2019s car being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/11\/151829341f62b1d.jpg?r=182939","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}