Watch: Babar Azam teaches Shan Masood batting ahead of PAK vs BAN 1st Test

Pakistan National Cricket Team batter Babar Azam hogged the headlines ahead of the first Test against the Bangladesh National Cricket Team. The two teams will be locking horns with each other in the two-match Test series, starting 21st August.

Pakistan National Cricket has regrouped and has started preparing for the Test series against Bangladesh National Cricket Team. The first game is all to take place at the Rawalpindi International Stadium while the second game of the series will be taking place at Karachi from 30th August.

The players of the Pakistan National Cricket Team are leaving no stone unturned in their preparations for the series. The batters have been putting in the hard yards in the net sessions while on the other hand, bowlers are sweating hard, ensuring that they are in full rhythm going into the series.

The spotlight will be on Babar Azam, who is touted as the best batter of the Pakistan National Cricket Team. He will be playing under the leadership of Shan Masood in the series and ahead of the first game, he was seen giving valuable insights to the captain.

In the video that has gone viral on the internet, Babar Azam can be seen giving batting tips to captain Shan Masood. The skipper of the team was keenly listening to the former captain of the team on the defensive techniques going into the first Test against the Bangladesh National Cricket Team.

Babar Azam coaches Shan Masood on batting ahead of first Test against Bangladesh

Here's the video:

Babar Azam Giving Tips to Shan Masood in the Nets pic.twitter.com/cS4Z14YUhJ

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Babar stepped down as the Test captain after the ICC World Cup 2023 and then the Pakistan Cricket Board appointed Shan Masood as the captain of the team. The left-hander took charge of the team during the Test series against the Australia National Cricket Team last year.

Under his leadership, Pakistan were close to winning games in Australia but they failed to cash in on the crunch moments. They ended up losing the series by the margin of 0-3.

Pakistan's white-ball team under the leadership of Babar Azam has been facing a lot of torrid defeats. They recently faced an early exit from the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 and received a lot of criticism. But on the other hand, Shan Masood would be keen to make an impact in red-ball.

This will be Masood’s second assignment after being named captain last year. With the Bangladesh National Cricket Team series all set to take place at home, he will have a great opportunity to register his first win as the Test captain.

Babar will be the key factor for the Pakistan National Cricket Team going into the Test series against Bangladesh. Although he hasn't registered a single fifty in the longest format of the game since 2022, he would be keen to turn things around and make an impact.