In any team game, the performance of each player is the guarantee of success. Every player contributes in some way or the other, only then the team gets victory and title. Still, there is one player in every team, who is the biggest star of that team and is its identity, who garners the most attention and is also the most effective. The expectations from him are also equally high. At present, this face in the Pakistan cricket team is Babar Azam, who has been performing brilliantly for the team many times, but for some time now, he has also been failing and its effect has been seen on the performance of the Pakistani team. Something similar happened in the Rawalpindi Test, where Babar failed in both the innings.

For the Pakistani team, which was facing a relatively weaker Test team like Bangladesh in its own home, it became difficult to save the match, let alone win. In this Test match being played in Rawalpindi, the Pakistani team, despite scoring 448 runs, was 117 runs behind Bangladesh in the first innings. Then in the second innings, when it needed amazing batting to save the match, its big names failed, including batsmen like captain Shan Masood, Abdullah Shafiq, Agha Salman, but the biggest disappointment was the team's biggest batsman and former captain Babar Azam.

Babar also faced problems in front of Bangladesh

Even before this series, Babar Azam's form was a matter of concern for Pakistan. After the flop show in the ODI World Cup last year, then the Test series in Australia and then the T20 World Cup, it was expected that he would probably regain his rhythm while playing against Bangladesh at home but this did not happen. In the first innings, he was out in just 2 balls without opening his account. Despite this, there was a chance of improvement in the second innings. In the second innings, the Pakistani team lost 2 wickets for just 28 runs and this was Babar's chance to save the team by playing a big innings.

That's it, Babar disappointed once again. That too, when wicketkeeper Litton Das gave him a life by dropping his catch on the very first ball. After this, Babar did stay for some time but then he became the victim of that bowler, who was playing only his second Test match, after scoring just 22 runs. The ball of 22-year-old fast bowler Nahid Khan hit Babar's bat and went into the stumps and Babar was bowled. This was the third wicket of Pakistan to fall at a score of just 66 runs and even at that time the team was 51 runs behind Bangladesh.

Bad times going on for one and a half year

This failure of Babar in Test cricket is becoming a constant cause of trouble for Pakistan as it has been going on for the last several matches. Babar has not been able to score even a half-century in the last 14 Test innings. His scores have been like this - 22, 0, 23, 26, 41, 1, 14, 21, 39, 24, 13, 27, 24, 14. If we talk only about 2023, then Babar has scored only 275 runs in 13 innings of Test cricket, in which his highest score has been 41 runs and the average is only 21.2. In such a situation, the effect of this failure of Babar is also visible on the performance of Pakistan and the team is missing out on registering a win.