{"id":13362,"date":"2023-01-13T13:02:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T13:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=13362"},"modified":"2023-01-13T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T13:02:48","slug":"babars-all-format-captaincy-in-danger-as-pcb-mulls-wholesale-review-after-psl-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/babars-all-format-captaincy-in-danger-as-pcb-mulls-wholesale-review-after-psl-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar&#8217;s all-format captaincy in danger as PCB mulls wholesale review after PSL 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Babar&#8217;s all-format captaincy in danger as PCB mulls wholesale review after PSL 8. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcb.com.pk\/\">Pakistan Cricket Board<\/a> (PCB) is mulling conducting a detailed assessment of the team management and leadership roles that could restrict the current all-format skipper Babar Azam\u2019s role in the team.<\/p>\n<p>According to media reports, the Najam Sethi-led PCB management committee is reportedly not satisfied with the incumbent set-up and is considering a holistic assessment after the end of the Pakistan Super League\u2019s (PSL) eighth season in March.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Test team did not win any game in the home Test season, losing three out of five Test matches and drawing two. The disappointing performance put Azam&#8217;s captaincy in the red-ball format in question.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pak-vs-nz-babar-azam-to-meet-shahid-afridi-today-to-finalise-playing-xi-for-first-test.html\">Pak vs NZ: Babar Azam to meet Shahid Afridi today to finalise playing XI for first Test<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>PCB sources, aware of the development, also confirmed that changes in the team management and leadership are expected due to the team&#8217;s disappointing performance recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe PCB is mulling to strip Babar Azam from all-format captaincy and appoint separate skippers for all the three formats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shan Masood\u2019s appointment as vice-captain in the ODI series against New Zealand in Shadab Khan&#8217;s absence was also part of the same long-term strategy and now different captains for red and white-ball formats are also a possibility, according to the same sources.<\/p>\n<p>Sarfaraz Ahmed and Shan Masood might be in contention as the Test captain, the sources continued.<\/p>\n<p>The board&#8217;s keenness to hire a foreign coach indicates that Head coach Saqlain Mushtaq and bowling coach Shaun Tait may also not be retained after their contract ends in February.<\/p>\n<p>However, PCB&#8217;s efforts to bring in former head coach Mickey Arthur have recently failed due to his prior commitments with English county Derbyshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babar&#8217;s all-format captaincy in danger as PCB mulls wholesale review after PSL 8. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is mulling conducting a detailed assessment of the team management and leadership roles that could restrict the current all-format skipper Babar Azam\u2019s role in the team. According to media reports, the Najam Sethi-led PCB management committee is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[694,8106,459,967,541,4102,2756,6932],"class_list":["post-13362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-babar-azam","tag-mickey-arthur","tag-pakistan-cricket-board","tag-pakistan-super-league","tag-psl","tag-saqlain-mushtaq","tag-sarfaraz-ahmed","tag-shan-masood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}