Babar Azam’s captaincy was questioned. While answering him, Virat Kohli’s tone of a year ago is in Babar’s voice. What did he say sitting in Eden?

Pakistan’s exit from the World Cup is virtually certain. However, Pakistan will play at the Eden Gardens on Saturday to exploit the little chance that remains. Before that, Babar Azam blasted the leadership in a press conference in Eden on Friday. He said that experts can contact him directly without making big comments on TV. Where did Virat Kohli’s tone match with Babar’s a year ago? This was also heard from Kohli’s mouth in last year’s Asia Cup.

Former cricketers like Wasim Akram, Mohammad Hafeez, Waqar Younis have already raised questions about Babar’s leadership. Is he stressed as a leader? Babar’s straight answer to the question, “I have been captaining for the last three years. Never pressured. Yes, I could not play the way I wanted to in this World Cup. That’s why people say I’m stressed. But in the last two and a half to three years, I have led the team. I ran again. No one said anything then.”

Babar Azam added, “Now I see that everyone has some opinion about me. I should do this, I should do that. If anyone really wants to give me any advice can contact me directly. Everyone has my number. But I think, everyone prefers imparting knowledge on TV. So no one contacts me.”

Cricket lovers will remember Kohli from a year ago. Virat retired from Test cricket at the beginning of 2022. Later, in a press conference after the Asia Cup loss against Pakistan, the former India captain said, “When I stepped down as Test captain, only one former cricketer called me. Many people have my number. But only Mahendra Singh Dhoni called. From this it can be understood who wants me well. If anyone really thought about me, he could have called me and talked to me.”

When Virat Kohli was not getting runs, many people talked about him in the media. World Cup-winning captain Kapil Dev said, “It’s not that India has never played without Kohli in the last five-six years. But I want to see a cricketer like him in rhythm. He may have been dropped or rested. But he still has a lot of cricket left in him. I want him to get back into the rhythm by playing Ranji.”

There was no run in Virat’s bat since the last IPL. He did not score a hundred for two and a half years. Ravi Shastri said to rest. Without naming names, Irfan Pathan said, no one has ever returned to the run after rest. Nana Muni Nana like that time was going around. Everyone was tearing Virat apart. Virat never said anything. Bomb blast in Asia Cup. Babar also went on the same road. Kohli is a good friend off the field.