Ever since Pakistan's performance in the T20 World Cup has been poor, there has been chaos in the team. Every day there is some news related to Pakistani cricket, which tells about the bad condition of the team instead of the improvement in the situation there. Just a few days ago, reports claimed that the team's star fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi had misbehaved with the coaching staff during the Ireland tour and then during the World Cup. Now a similar shocking claim has been made about the team's star batsman Babar Azam.

Did Babar misbehave with the coach?

A post went viral on social media platform 'X' on Tuesday, July 16, claiming that Babar Azam misbehaved with the team's former batting coach during the Pakistani team's tour of Australia earlier this year. The tweet cited a report and said that Babar misbehaved with former batting coach Adam Hollioake when he was going through a bad form on that tour.

As per senior journalist Saleem Khaliq, “Babar Azam misbehaved with Ex Pakistan batting coach Adam Hollioake during Australia tour when he was having bad batting form”

allegations or true? @faizanlakhani , #PCB pic.twitter.com/ugFr23M98K

— (@iam_JZK) July 15, 2024

What is the truth of this claim?

As soon as this post went viral, many comments started coming in, in which Babar's fans also jumped to his defense. In such a situation, everyone became desperate to know whether Babar really misbehaved with the former coach? On this issue, Pakistan's experienced sports journalist Faizan Lakhani told the 'truth'. Lakhani refused to accept it as misbehavior but definitely admitted that Babar had refused to listen to the coach. He claimed that Hollioake wanted to work on some flaws in Babar Azam's batting at that time but Babar was not ready to accept his mistake.

I don't think it was a case of misbehavior.
What I have heard from sources is that Adam Hollioake, as a batting coach, wanted to work with Babar Azam to correct some of his mistakes. However, Babar wasn't willing and insisted that he was doing everything right. https://t.co/xf8ncesBEG

— Faizan Lakhani (@faizanlakhani) July 15, 2024

How was the performance?

According to the journalist, Babar believed that he was doing everything right and hence there was no need for any improvement. However, the truth of Babar doing everything right was also clearly visible in his performance on that tour. Babar played 6 innings of 3 Test matches on that tour of Australia and during this time he could score only 126 runs at an average of 21. In these 6 innings, not even a half-century came out of his bat. Now in such a situation, if Babar was not ready to accept his mistake and improve his batting, then he and his team had to bear the brunt of it.