Babar azam vs Shan Masood Test Matches Stats, Records: The condition of Pakistani cricket team in Test cricket is bad. The reason for this is that it has lost the series 0-2 to a weaker team like Bangladesh. Bangladesh not only whitewashed Pakistan in the Test series in its history, but also won a series against its opponent in this format for the first time. In such a situation, the big question is that Shan Masood, who was given the captaincy of the team with great pride, has proved to be a dud as a captain.
The special thing is that he has lagged behind Babar Azam in terms of Test cricket captaincy record. ’14 December, 2023…’ This was the date when Shan Masood got the opportunity to take over the Test captaincy against Australia in Perth in place of Babar Azam. Since then, Shan has captained Pakistan in a total of 5 Test matches. Pakistan has lost in all these matches.
Bangladesh team celebrates with the trophy after securing their first-ever Test series win against Pakistan.🏆🎉
PC: PCB#BCB #Cricket #BDCricket #Bangladesh #PAKvBAN #WTC2 pic.twitter.com/qJtfXccjrs
— Bangladesh Cricket (@BCBtigers) September 3, 2024
As captain, Shan Masood’s Pakistani team lost by 360 runs in Perth. Then in the second Test of the series, Pakistan lost by 79 runs in Melbourne. In the third Test of the same series, Pakistan lost to the Kangaroo team by 8 wickets. That is, in his very first captaincy tour, Shan Masood was whitewashed 3-0 in the Benaud-Qadir Trophy (Benaud-Qadir Trophy, 2023/24). In this series, Shan Masood scored 181 runs in 3 Test matches and former captain Babar Azam scored 126 runs in 3 matches.
Bangladesh was also whitewashed in the series
In the series against Bangladesh that concluded on 3 September, Pakistan had to face a shameful defeat of 0-2. Both the matches of the series were held in Rawalpindi. In the first Test, Bangladesh defeated the host team by 10 wickets. In this match, Pakistan declared the first innings at 448/6. In reply, Bangladesh scored 565 runs in the first innings. After this, the Pakistani team was all out for 146 runs in the first innings. After this, Bangladesh scored 30 runs and won by 10 wickets.
Pakistan 🆚 Bangladesh | 2nd Test | Day 05
Bangladesh won the match by 6 wickets and the series 2-0 (2) 💥👏PC: PCB#BCB #Cricket #BDCricket #Bangladesh #PAKvBAN #WTC25 pic.twitter.com/oyvyXZH1BV
— Bangladesh Cricket (@BCBtigers) September 3, 2024
In the second test match also, Bangladesh showed a great performance and defeated Pakistan by 6 wickets. In this way, the Bangladeshi team defeated Pakistan for the first time in a test series. Bangladesh was given a target of 185 runs.
Talking about this series, Shan Masood failed in captaincy and could only score 105 runs in 2 matches at an average of 26.25. On the other hand, former captain Babar Azam could score only 64 runs in 2 Test matches.
Who is better in captaincy, Babar or Shan?
If we talk about Pakistan’s most successful Test captain, then Misbah-ul-Haq is at the top of this list. Under his captaincy, Pakistan played a total of 56 matches between 2010 and 2017, in which they won 26 matches, lost 19 and 11 matches were drawn. Imran Khan is at the second place; under whose captaincy Pakistan won 14 out of 48 Test matches. They lost 8 and 26 were drawn.
Babar Azam, who was stripped of Test captaincy, still has a better record than Shan Masood. Babar has captained Pakistan in 20 Test matches under his captaincy. Pakistan has won 10 Test matches in these, lost 6 Test matches, while 4 were draws. That is, one thing is clear that Shan Masood is currently failing in fulfilling the great expectations with which he was brought in as Test captain in place of Babar Azam.
International career of Shan Masood
35 Tests, 1883 runs, 28.53 average
9 ODIs, 163 runs, 18.11 average
19 T20s, 395 runs, 30.38 average
International career of Babar Azam
54 Tests, 3962 runs, 44.51 average
117 ODIs, 5729 runs, 56.72 average
123 T20s, 4145 runs, 41.03 average
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