Shaheen and Shan Masood
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Ruckus continues in Pakistan cricket. After Babar Azam resigned from the captaincy in all three formats, Shaheen Shah Afridi has been given the T20 captaincy and Shan Masood has been given the Test captaincy. At the same time, no information has been given about the captain of the ODI team. Pakistan has to play the next ODI match in the month of November in 2024. There is still one year left in this. For this reason the ODI captain has not been selected.
After Pakistan’s poor performance in the ODI World Cup 2023, it was believed that Babar Azam might have to leave the captaincy. Since then Shaheen Afridi’s name was coming up as captain. Shaheen was the only Pakistani player to perform well in this World Cup. He has earlier captained the Lahore Qalandars team in PSL and has also made his team the champion. In such a situation, making him the captain of T20 is considered to be the right decision. Mohammad Rizwan was also involved in the race for captaincy, but he has not been given this responsibility.
The name of Pakistan’s new Test captain Shan Masood was not already in discussion, but he has been given this responsibility. 34-year-old Masood is a left-handed batsman and has played 30 test matches for Pakistan. In Tests he has scored 1597 runs at an average of 28. Till now his place in the Test team was not confirmed, but he has suddenly been given the command of the team. Now it remains to be seen how the Pakistan team performs under his leadership on the tour of Australia.