WATCH: Former Pakistan coach Mohsin Khan's shocking statement on Kohli-Babar comparison

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) selection committee has been questioned on their team selection ahead of the Champions Trophy after a horrible performance in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. Apart from the board, even the players have been criticised which also includes the likes of Babar Azam who is the current big star of Pakistan.

Babar Azam’s performance in the tournament was quite underwhelming. He scored a scratchy half-century in the game against New Zealand and got dismissed cheaply against the arch-rivals. He has also lost his number-one ranking in the ODI format, which now belongs to upcoming opening batter Shubman Gill. Despite all the criticism, former Pakistan cricketer and coach Mohsin Khan has made a shocking statement on social media on the comparison between Babar and India cricketing legend Virat Kohli, saying that the 2-time World Champion is nothing compared to Babar on a local news channel called Ary News while open.

“First of all, let me tell you one thing. Virat Kohli is nothing compared to Babar Azam; Kohli is zero. We are not talking here about who is a better player and we are talking about Pakistan cricket. Which has been destroyed. There is no planning, no strategies, no merit, and there is no accountability at all. There is no accountability,” Mohsin said.

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Former cricketer Mohsin Khan expressed a strong opinion, stating that Virat Kohli is nowhere near Babar Azam in terms of skill. He saic in his view, Kohli is insignificant compared to Babar and criticized him quite harshly The level of knowledge😭😁😁😁

07:30 PM · Mar 01, 2025

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Babar’s opening conundrum

The other decision from the management that has upset the experts is to change Babar’s fixed position at number three to open the batting in the tournament. One of the experts who has had a problem with this change is former Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam, who shared his opinion on Sportstar.

“Why on earth will you send him to No. 1? He’s not an opener. No. 3 is the backbone of a batting lineup, and your best bet should come in that position, and he should have been told by the coaches to stay there for the entire duration and get a century. If he got you a hundred and someone else chipped in with 50 or 60-odd, you’d have nearly 300 runs on the board, and that’s how you should be playing. Even Babar should have refused to change his batting position. I don’t know who convinced him to open the innings. It was a bad decision,” the former cricketer said.