Aqib Javed Says Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi And Mohammad Rizwan Are Better Than Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah And Rishabh Pant

Former Pakistan player and Lahore Qalandars’ head coach Aqib Javed has made a controversial claim, stating that the Pakistan National Cricket Team players Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, and Shaheen Afridi are better than India National Cricket Team players Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant and Jasprit Bumrah.

The 49-year-old has said that the Pakistan National Cricket Team captain Babar is now ahead of former India National Cricket Team captain Kohli. He feels that Kohli’s peak is gone and now he is struggling to score runs, on the other hand, the Pakistan skipper is having a great run in cricket.

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“Now I think Babar is ahead. He [Kohli] had his peak but now going down. But Babar, on the other hand, is going up,” Aqib said on a local news channel.

Notably, Babar was recently named ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year 2021 and on the other hand, Kohli has won several ICC cricketer of the year awards as well as he was the ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade and ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Decade.

I now think that Shaheen is better than Bumrah – Aqib Javed

Javed further added that the left-arm pacer Shaheen is better than the right-arm pacer Bumrah and the Pakistan pacer possesses more capacity than the Indian pacer.

“I now think that Shaheen is better than Bumrah because when Shaheen came into the international circuit Bumrah had already established himself and the critics used to say that Bumrah is doing well in Tests, T20Is, and so but now Shaheen has proved he is even better and has more capacity than Bumrah,” he said.

Javed also opined that wicketkeeper-batsman Rizwan is way ahead of wicketkeeper-batsman Pant and he takes the responsibility very well.

“Rizwan is better than Pant these days. There is no doubt that Pant is an extremely skillful player but the way Rizwan takes the responsibility, Pant is well behind him. It is often said that Pant is an aggressive player, but the aggressiveness doesn’t mean to hit a couple of big shots and got out but to stay at the crease, fight, and finish the game,” Aqib added.

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