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TopicBabar Azam

Topic: Babar Azam

PCB demotes Babar Azam in central contracts. Pakistanis call it ‘injustice to national hero’

Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan were the only two Category A players. After their demotion, there are no players in the category, marking a first in the 21-year history of Pakistan’s contract system.

Pakistan cricket is in a ‘dark age’, ushered in by politics, corruption, terrorism & crumbling infra

New Delhi: Pakistan have a new head coach for their men’s Test team—the seventh such appointment in four years, and one that illustrates how...

With troubles on & off field, Pakistan faces arch-rival India in ‘do-or-die’ Champions Trophy match

Pakistan played New Zealand in its first match of the tournament and lost by 60 runs, failing to start the campaign on a high note.

Pakistanis slam Babar Azam for his ‘tuk-tuk cricket’. Call him SOAT, painfully slow

Calling Pakistan’s Champions Trophy performance “disappointing”, former pacer Shoaib Akhtar said the team is playing a “different kind of cricket, not the ones other teams are playing”.

Pakistanis playing blame game after T20 World Cup. Coach Kirsten’s remark fans the flames

"There are 11 players, and each of them has a role," Babar Azam refuses to take responsibility for the Pakistan cricket team's defeat in the T20 World Cup.

Pakistanis see ‘Amriki sazish’ in T20 World Cup loss to USA

Pakistani TV veteran Anwar Maqsood also said in a video that the Babar Azam-led team lost deliberately. It maybe IMF’s demand.

‘Failed to assess conditions,’ says Pakistan skipper Babar Azam after shock loss to US

A below-par Pakistan were stunned by newcomers USA in the Super Over in their opening Group A match of the ongoing T20 World Cup.

Shahid Afridi has advice for India and Babar Azam. Pakistanis ask ‘who the hell is he?’

Afridi said he wants the ICC Champions Trophy be held in Pakistan with India's participation. He also hoped that Babar Azam wins his next trophy on home ground but that he must improve his game.

Shahid Afridi surprised with Babar Azam’s comeback—Pakistanis call it ‘Amreci sazish’

Pakistan is witnessing a Babar vs Shaheen supremacy battle after the country’s cricket board removed Shaheen Afridi as captain to reinstate Babar Azam.

Babar Azam sacking was planned — ‘PCB chief audio leak’ tells how it all happened

Pakistani cricket fans believe that the leaked audio confirms the PCB chairman's responsibility for Babar Azam's situation.

On Camera

On Arundhati Roy, mother-daughter conflicts, and the burden of being a ‘good mother’

When reading the book, one can see Roy’s mother as a 'fascist government' unto herself, the centre of her own cult. In Arundhati’s words, Mary Roy was ‘mother guru’.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Loyal wingman’ to full ICBM triad & air defence, China’s show of power at Victory Day parade

China flaunted military might & modernisation as it displayed stealth drones, anti-satellite system & cyber warfare contingent during parade to mark victory over Japan in WWII.

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.