‘aap kiski baat kar rahe hain, Jiska naam liya’ - Babar Azam's cool response to a question over his captaincy criticism grabs attention

Pakistan skipper Babar Azam has been under the scanner in the recent times for his captaincy which hasn’t produced convincing results. Right from the Asia Cup final defeat to Sri Lanka, to the 3-4 home series defeat against England, Pakistan has found it tough to win crucial games and they faced a defeat earlier this week against New Zealand in the ongoing Tri-Series. 

While Babar’s captaincy has been the focal point here, a journalist had been quite critical over the former’s leadership last week and it proved to be a talking point among the cricketing fraternity. After a hard-fought win against Bangladesh, Pakistan will now be playing New Zealand in the final of the Tri Series and Babar had a savage reply to one of the questions asked to him about the criticism.  

We just try to keep team's confidence and unity intact: Babar Azam 

Babar Azam was questioned about the criticism he had faced and the 27-year-old responded in a cool manner stating he wasn’t aware of the journalist or the criticism. He went on to signify the importance of taking those kinds of things lightly and felt it is bound to happen even when the team performs well. He concluded by stressing on keeping the confidence higher and improving on things that are lagging.  

“I don't know aap kiski baat kar rahe hain. Jiska naam liya hai main unko jaanta bhi nahi. Ye cheezein chalti hain, achha bhi karte hain toh bhi chalti hai. But ham log bother nahi karte, koshish karte hain ki jitna confidence team ko diya jaaye, aur jitna unity bani hui hai usko chalaate rahein (I don't know who you are talking about. These things happen, even when we perform well, it happens. But we don't bother, we just try to keep team's confidence and unity intact),” Babar told in the post match conference. 

“Koshish ye hi rehti hai ki ham apna 100 percent de aur jeetein. Kabhi kabhi ham to the mark nahi hote, par ham discussion karte hain aur sochte hain ki kahan ham achha kar sakte hain. (We try to give our 100 percent and win. Sometimes, we are not up to the mark, but we discuss and plan about things where we can improve),” he added.