{"id":78035,"date":"2024-04-01T20:45:44","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T20:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/shahid-afridi-surprised-over-babar-azams-appointment-as-white-ball-cricket-skipper\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T20:45:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T20:45:44","slug":"shahid-afridi-surprised-over-babar-azams-appointment-as-white-ball-cricket-skipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/shahid-afridi-surprised-over-babar-azams-appointment-as-white-ball-cricket-skipper\/","title":{"rendered":"Shahid Afridi surprised over Babar Azam&#8217;s appointment as white-ball cricket skipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"featuredimg\">\n <\/p>\n<p class=\"captionimg\">Shahid Afridi surprised over Babar Azam\u2019s appointment as white-ball cricket skipper<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Shahid Afridi was surprised after Babar Azam\u2019s appointment as skipper.<\/li>\n<li>PCB announced the news on Sunday on its social media channels.<\/li>\n<li>Babar\u2019s first task would be to lead Pakistan against New Zealand on home soil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ex-all-rounder Shahid Afridi has voiced his surprise at the appointment of Babar Azam as Pakistan\u2019s T20I captain, taking over from Shaheen Afridi.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Sunday that Babar Azam would be leading the team in white-ball cricket, which includes ODIs and T20Is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing unanimous recommendation from the PCB\u2019s selection committee, Chairman PCB Mohsin Naqvi has appointed Babar Azam as white-ball (ODI and T20I) captain of the Pakistan men\u2019s cricket team,\u201d the PCB confirmed on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Shaheen Afridi, who is Shahid Afridi\u2019s son-in-law, was relieved of his T20I captaincy after leading Pakistan in a single series against New Zealand earlier this year, which Pakistan lost. Furthermore, Lahore Qalandars, the team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2024\/04\/shaheen-afridi-responds-after-being-removed-as-pakistans-t20-captain\/\">Shaheen<\/a> led in the recent Pakistan Super League, ended up at the bottom of the table.<\/p>\n<p>Shahid Afridi, expressing his astonishment, questioned the decision made by the seasoned cricketers on the selection committee.<\/p>\n<p>Afridi suggested that if a leadership change was required, Mohammad Rizwan would have been a more suitable choice in his view.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am surprised by the decision by very experienced cricketers in the selection committee,\u201d Afridi posted on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still believe that if change was necessary than Rizwan was the best choice! But since now the decision has been made I offer my full support and best wishes to team Pakistan and Babar Azam,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>With Babar\u2019s return to captaincy, his first duty will be to lead Pakistan in the forthcoming five-match T20I series against New Zealand at home, commencing from April 18.<\/p>\n<div class=\"alsoread\">\n<h4 class=\"text-uppercase mb-10 mt-20 fs-18\">Also Read<\/h4>\n<div class=\"post-box sty22\">\n<div class=\"post-frame js-ratioHtP\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/FotoJet-2024-04-01T103737.343-254x144.jpg\" alt=\"Babar Azam\u2019s father advices his son to show respect towards Amir Imad after becoming captain\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<h5 class=\"title\">Babar Azam\u2019s father advices his son to show respect towards Amir Imad after becoming captain<\/h5>\n<p>Babar Azam was given a valuable advice by his father. Babar was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/sports\/2024\/04\/babar-azams-father-advices-his-son-to-show-respect-towards-amir-imad-after-becoming-captain\/\" class=\"post-link\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shahid Afridi surprised over Babar Azam\u2019s appointment as white-ball cricket skipper Shahid Afridi was surprised after Babar Azam\u2019s appointment as skipper. PCB announced the news on Sunday on its social media channels. Babar\u2019s first task would be to lead Pakistan against New Zealand on home soil. Ex-all-rounder Shahid Afridi has voiced his surprise at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78036,"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:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/FotoJet-2024-04-01T123306.135.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78035","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=78035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}