Former Pakistan cricketer Mohsin Khan believes that Babar Azam is a good batsman but he lacks support around him as he cited Virat Kohli’s example of how the star Indian batter gets quality batters around him.
“Babar isn’t a bad batter. But you need a clutch of quality players around him to support him. Look at Virat Kohli — in Tests he had Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, KL Rahul,” Mohsin told PTI. “In ODIs he had Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan. A great player is made even greater when surrounded by other strong players.”
Experienced batters from the Pakistan team, Babar and Mohammad Rizwan, were left out of the Asia Cup 2025 squad due to poor run of form and ordinary strike rate. Mohsin added that a batter is burdered by extra pressure if he has to carry the entire batting unit.
“If you are always put under pressure that you have to score centuries every time you step out, they are humans too — hence at times you aren’t able to play the game the team requires you to play.” Mohsin added.
The former Pakistan cricketer further said that in there are many quality players in a good team, not one or two, citing examples of Pakistani teams.
“During our time there was Majid Khan, Javed Miandad, Zaheer Abbas, and later Saeed Anwar, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Mohammad Yousuf and Younis Khan. Teams are built on numbers — you need a group of players who are more or less of the same quality. Right now, there is a big gulf between Babar and the rest.”
Babar has represented Pakistan in 231 international matches, scoring 14,749 runs, including 31 centuries.
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