'Mujhse to weight kam karne ko bola tha' - Twitter reacts to PCB sacking Sarfaraz Ahmed in Tests and T20Is

Finally, the Pakistan Cricket Board has had enough of Sarfaraz Ahmed and have decided to get rid of him as captain of the team in Test cricket and T20I cricket. Azhar Ali will lead the team in Test cricket, while Babar Azam will captain in the T20I format. Pakistan is scheduled to play three T20 Internationals and two Tests against Australia during their month-long tour Down Under.

Sarfaraz was racing against time in order to save his job as captain ever since the high of the ICC Champions Trophy 2017 win wore off ultimately. The final nail in the coffin proved to be his failure to lead Pakistan into the knockout stages of the ICC World Cup 2019. Though the new selector and head coach Misbah-ul-Haq kept faith in him for home series against Sri Lanka, the 0-3 loss in the T20I series to a second-string team ended whatever trust was left.

The captain’s poor form with the bat didn’t help him either as now the PCB chief Ehsan Mani had advised him to go back into the domestic cricket and find his form and regain his confidence. The ODI captaincy will be discussed later as the team is not playing any 50-over games in the near future.

“It has been a difficult decision to drop Sarfaraz Ahmed, who has performed well as a player and a leader. But, his loss in form and confidence is visible and, in the best interest of the team, it has been decided to leave him out and provide him the opportunity to reflect and regroup himself and try to reclaim his form away from international cricket,” Mani was quoted as saying in the PCB press release.

This has made the Pakistani public quite happy as Sarfaraz was getting quite unpopular ever since he made the grave mistake of winning the toss and choosing to bowl first against India in the World Cup game, which the Men in Green lost and time was ticking down for him. He won’t be traveling with the Pakistani team to Australia for the month-long tour and Twitter was filled with reactions to him being dropped from the helm.

Here are the best tweets.

Bechara salfu..😣#SarfarazAhmed pic.twitter.com/t0lCQWiRxC

— Ayan (@AyanViratians) October 18, 2019

So Yawning in a WC game, that too against India finally takes its toll #SarfarazAhmed sacked

— Sumeet Gill (@TheSumeetGill) October 18, 2019

Less than a remain in T20 WC and they take shittty decision to remove senior experience captain Sarfaraz ahmed from Captancy. 💔😒😒

Don't know What new management want to do pic.twitter.com/sMmySW1lQr

— iqra chohan (@iqrachohan13) October 18, 2019

Sarfaraz Ahmed's record as T20I captain

T20Is – 37
Won – 29
Lost – 8
Win% – 78.37

Sarfaraz took Pakistan to No1 in T20Is without home matches just like Misbah did in Tests, also won the ODI CT 2017. Now World's No1 T20I team will be lead by World's No1 T20I batsman Babar Azam.

— Javid Pakistani🇵🇰 (@Javid_Pakistani) October 18, 2019

PCB has removed Sarfaraz Ahmed from the captaincy in all three formats of the game. Blessings of Friday – #JummahMubarak #Sarfaraz

— Aqeel Khan (@AqeelKhan782) October 18, 2019

Bad news for india😂🤣
Ab troll kese karenge#SarfarazAhmed #sarfaraz pic.twitter.com/gwVhqeleRE

— Hemant (@hem_a_nt) October 18, 2019

Accha Chalta hu "Burger" se yaad rakhna 🙏#SarfarazAhmed #ViratKohli pic.twitter.com/325AjP3G6P

— Santosh Chaurasia (@ChaurasiaVi23) October 18, 2019

#SarfarazAhmed be like :
Mujhse to weight kam karne ko bola tha 😂 pic.twitter.com/N5fIkjnuhd

— Santosh Chaurasia (@ChaurasiaVi23) October 18, 2019

Sarfaraz Ahmed has not only been sacked but also dropped from both Tests and T20Is. The PCB will decide on ODI captaincy later

— Vishal Dikshit (@Vishal1686) October 18, 2019

2 Good news for PAK Cricket in a week!

* Sarfaraz Ahmed sacked from Captaincy in Tests & T20Is

* ICC readmitted ZIM as a FULL MEMBER!#PakistanCricket #SarfarazAhmed #ZimbabweCricket pic.twitter.com/ppWO94dAVW

— Diwakar Varatharajan (@Diwakar_Gullu) October 18, 2019

Sarfaraz Ahmed's two greatest moments as captain.#ThankYouSarfaraz #Pakistan #Cricket pic.twitter.com/UiMA07Mn0Z

— CricBlog (@cric_blog) October 18, 2019

Breaking News!#Sarfaraz #SarfarazAhmed #sarfaraz pic.twitter.com/KoTWUt9fdg

— Ankit Rawat (@ankitrawat18) October 18, 2019

Saddened to Hear the news of Replacing #Sarfaraz By Babar Azam ! That's how We Ruined our #Cricket Instead of replacing Waqar & Misbah,We replaced Our beloved Captain,who makes us always Proud,who let us 1st in T20,who Liftup in ODI's from 10 to 1st ! Shame #PCB#SarfarazAhmed

— Adnan (@BecreativeAdnan) October 18, 2019

Only PCB can do such blunders. One bad performance in t20s costed Sarfaraz Ahmed his captincy. It's understandable in test cricket, but he was the best odi and t20 captain. Don't forget, he was the captain, when team won 11 consecutive t20 series.#Sarfarazahmed

— н ε я м α ι η к н α η (@hermainkhan2) October 18, 2019

So as I predicted after T20 series against Sri Lanka that Sarfaraz Ahmed will be removed from the captaincy for all three formats so today PCB Removes Sarfaraz Ahmed as Captain From All 3 Formats, where are those people who were supporting him? 😂😂#SarfarazAhmed

— Danish Kaleem (@danesh_kaleem) October 18, 2019

देखिए मुझे निकाला नहीं गया मेने खुद इस्तीफा दिया है। भाई मुझे क्रिकेट के अलावा भी दूसरे काम होते है। जेसे की…. खेर छोड़ो वो सब, अब तो में आराम से पिजे बर्गर खा सकता हूं और कोई कुछ बोलेगा भी नहीं। क्युकी सबका ध्यान तो बाबर पे होगा। He he.#sarfaraz #SarfarazAhmed #Pakistan pic.twitter.com/OYYvxQAEEj

— Sir Thanos (@SirThanoss) October 18, 2019