The Pakistan team has suffered a clean sweep in the two-match Test series against Bangladesh. Almost all the blame for this defeat has been put on the team’s experienced batsman Babar Azam, as he could not score even 70 runs in four innings. Babar Azam’s form has been poor for a long time and in such a situation, the Pakistan team and Babar Azam’s fans have appealed to Virat Kohli to support Babar Azam. Fans want Virat Kohli to support Babar Azam in the same way as Babar Azam supported him in 2022.
After getting out for zero in the first innings of the first match of the two-match Test series against Bangladesh, Babar Azam scored 22 runs in the next innings and 31 runs in the first innings of the second match, so everyone thought that perhaps Babar Azam could score big in the second innings, but he was out after scoring just 11 runs. In this way, he could score only 64 runs in 4 innings. In such a situation, former Pakistani cricketers criticized Babar Azam’s form, but fans have appealed to Virat Kohli to encourage his junior player in international cricket.
Let us tell you that in 2022, Virat Kohli was also out of form and during that time Babar Azam wished Kohli to come out of this difficult time and he wrote on the x, “This time will also pass. Stay strong Virat Kohli.” Virat Kohli’s reaction also came on this and he wrote thank you to Virat Kohli. Earlier, Virat Kohli was able to score 16 and 17 runs in two ODIs on the tour of England and was out after scoring 1 and 11 runs in two T20 matches. At that time Virat Kohli’s form had become very bad. However, Virat recovered from it and now Pakistani fans want Virat to also support Babar Azam.
Virat Kohli took a break of about a month after Babar Azam’s tweet and did not even touch the bat. He returned directly in the Asia Cup 2022 and scored runs in that tournament as well as hit a century, which was his first century in T20 International cricket. In the same year, he played an unbeaten and historic innings of 82 runs in the T20 World Cup against Pakistan. The same is the condition of Babar Azam at the moment. He has not scored even a half-century in Test cricket for 616 days. Babar has also lost the captaincy.
You can see here how Pakistani fans are appealing to Virat Kohli… A fan wrote, “Babar Azam tweeted for the great Virat Kohli, “This time too shall pass” when he was out of form. And Virat Kohli accepts that Babar Azam is also one of the great players, so will he tweet for Babar Azam and show some support, as Babar is going through a bad phase.”
Another person wrote, “Looking at the tweet, it seems like Virat Kohli was expected to tweet in support of Babar Azam, which is a copy of the “this time too shall pass” tweet made by the former Pakistan captain a few years ago. This is nonsense. This is just cultivation of engagement and nothing else.”
Another fan of Babar and the Pakistan team wrote, “Virat Kohli is senior to Babar Azam in international cricket. It is Virat’s social responsibility to come forward and inspire his junior players during the bad times in their careers. We hope that Virat will stand up for Babar just like Babar stood up for Virat.”
Babar Azam will play in the upcoming Test series against England, while Virat Kohli can be seen playing a two-match Test series against the same Bangladesh team from September 19.