Not much has gone right with the Pakistan cricket team since the ODI World Cup 2023. Babar Azam had to step down from the captaincy due to the team’s poor performance in the marquee event, while several other changes were also made in the backroom staff. Mohammad Hafeez was appointed as the national team director, with the owners hoping for a change in fortunes, but nothing went as planned, with Pakistan suffering heavy defeats in the tours of Australia and New Zealand. Seeing his tenure as Pakistan team director coming to an early end, Hafeez has now revealed the ‘difficult conversations’ he had with Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan during his tenure.

Babar could not give his best performance with the bat in the ODI World Cup and the same trend continued on the tour of Australia and New Zealand. Hafeez revealed that he had asked Babar to bat at number 3 for the betterment of the team but it took him two months to convince the former captain to do so.

“It took me about two months to convince Babar Azam that you have to do this for Pakistan and you are not the first person to do this. You are a great player, you are an amazing player and you are playing great cricket no matter who you are.” Playing.” To develop Pakistan team. You and Rizwan are very good players, excellent players but you are not a complete team,” Hafeez said on A-Sports.

“We need to develop a team and for that, I want you to come in at No. 3 because you have been playing this role in ODI cricket for the last six years, so it will have no impact on you; technically you Very strong.” “Huge thanks to him that he accepted it and he played at No. 3 for Pakistan, which obviously I think is the best way to move forward,” Hafeez said.

In the T20I against New Zealand, Babar held the No. 3 position in the team, with Sam Ayub opening the batting alongside Rizwan. Babar scored 213 runs in five matches against the Kiwis at an average of 42.60.