Babar Azam the Captain - Pakistan the Winner

Pakistan completed a T20I series win over South African last night with a spirited chase of a relatively steep target, ending a successful home campaign against the visitors.

2-0 in Tests and 2-1 in T20Is – not a bad first full series as captain for Babar Azam.

There are people worried about his form. There are people worried about his captaincy.

Concerns may be valid, but at the end of the day the only thing such judgments should be based on are results.

And results for Pakistan under Babar Azam’s captaincy are exemplary!

It may not be his technical ability that has resulted in all these wins for Pakistan under Babar’s captaincy, but something is working right.

Maybe the players are responding well to him, maybe he is a lucky captain, maybe it is his decision making.

It really doesn’t matter if the end result is a win for Pakistan!

His batting form has also been questioned and I get that he just completed a Test series without a century and a T20I series without a fifty.

But he did score 77 in the second test that helped Pakistan steer out of trouble. And he did score 44 off 30 in the third T20I that set up Pakistan’s successful run chase and series win.

And in his first ODI series as captain, Babar smashed scores of 125 and 77.

I think Pakistan’s captaincy is in fine hands and the results show that too. This is just the start, and the future looks promising with Babar at the helm.