Islamabad
\nPakistan Test captain Shan Masood was confident about star batter Babar Azam\u2019s stong comeback in the forthcoming ODI series against Australia, scheduled to commence on November 4 in Melbourne.
\nBabar is going through a rough patch, particularly in Test cricket, as the star batter, after managing just 35 runs in the first Test against England, was among the four key players rested from the series remainder.
\nMeanwhile, Masood, while speaking to the BBC\u2019s \u2018Stumped\u2019 podcast on Saturday, asserted he has no right to decide Babar\u2019s future, whom he called one of the best batters in the world.
\n\u201cI think he\u2019s one of the best batsmen in the world. I\u2019m nobody to [say he doesn\u2019t have] a future.
\n\u201cHe has every quality to be one of the greatest batsmen in Test cricket. He\u2019s always there or thereabouts in the rankings. Sometimes, people need a break.\u201d
\nThe left-handed batter expressed his hope in Babar Azam to make a \u201cstrong comeback\u201d during the stiff white-ball tour to Australia.
\n\u201cI think this break will do him a great deal of benefit and he\u2019ll come back a stronger player,\u201d Masood said. \u201cThere\u2019s no harm in being pulled out at times and having a breather. He\u2019s played a lot of cricket and gone through a lot, and he\u2019ll always be one of the main batsmen to play for Pakistan.\u201d
\nFor the unversed, Babar\u2019s last appearance in ODIs came in the ICC Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup 2023 where he amassed 320 runs at a decent average of 40 with the help of four half-centuries.
\nDespite being out of action for almost a year, Babar managed to hold on to the summit of the ICC Men\u2019s ODI Batting Rankings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Islamabad Pakistan Test captain Shan Masood was confident about star batter Babar Azam\u2019s stong comeback in the forthcoming ODI series against Australia, scheduled to commence on November 4 in Melbourne. Babar is going through a rough patch, particularly in Test cricket, as the star batter, after managing just 35 runs in the first Test against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-441282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n