{"id":306081,"date":"2023-01-08T08:34:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T03:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=306081"},"modified":"2023-01-08T08:34:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T03:34:04","slug":"babar-azam-rues-winless-home-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/babar-azam-rues-winless-home-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar Azam rues winless home season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ISLAMABAD<br \/>\nPakistan\u2019s all-format captain Babar Azam is dejected by the team\u2019s winless home season but refuses to blame players\u2019 injuries or unresponsive pitches for their lean run.<br \/>\nPakistan twice returned from the brink of defeat to force a 0-0 stalemate in the two-test series against New Zealand, which followed a 3-0 whitewash at the hands of England last month.<br \/>\nThey have now gone eight tests at home without a win, which put paid to their hopes of making the World Test Championship final, and Babar conceded this was not how he expected the season to unfold.<br \/>\n\u201cThe test season hasn\u2019t gone according to expectations,\u201d Babar told a news conference after Pakistan narrowly avoided a third successive home series defeat. \u201cIt\u2019s not an excuse but some of our players were unfit which disturbed our combination.\u201d<br \/>\nTheir bowling unit particularly suffered.<br \/>\nPace spearhead Shaheen Afridi remains sidelined with a knee injury, while fellow quick Haris Rauf and Naseem Shah missed the bulk of the series against England with niggles.<br \/>\nThe pitches used for the series against England and New Zealand also drew flak for being too batter-friendly and Babar said it did not help their cause either.<br \/>\n\u201cOf course there\u2019s talk about the pitches, but conditions are different at every venue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Pakistan\u2019s all-format captain Babar Azam is dejected by the team\u2019s winless home season but refuses to blame players\u2019 injuries or unresponsive pitches for their lean run. Pakistan twice returned from the brink of defeat to force a 0-0 stalemate in the two-test series against New Zealand, which followed a 3-0 whitewash at the hands [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306092,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306081","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Babar Azam rues winless home season<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/babar-azam-rues-winless-home-season\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Babar Azam rues winless home season\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ISLAMABAD Pakistan\u2019s all-format captain Babar Azam is dejected by the team\u2019s winless home season but refuses to blame players\u2019 injuries or unresponsive pitches for their lean run. 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