Rizwan's Pakistan captaincy sack: Afridi breaks silence - 'Good human'

Pakistan's ODI skipper Shaheen Shah Afridi revealed connected Monday that helium accepted the captaincy lone aft discussions with erstwhile skipper Mohammad Rizwan, who voluntarily stepped down from the position.

Afridi, who antecedently served arsenic T20I skipper earlier being dismissed aft 1 series, shared insights astir the enactment modulation and his attack to captaincy.Afridi disclosed that Rizwan was the sole idiosyncratic helium consulted earlier accepting the role, and Rizwan willingly made mode for him.

"I took this work from the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) aft discussing the substance with Rizwan," Afridi told the media.

"Rizwan was the lone idiosyncratic I had a treatment with and I asked him however helium felt astir maine accepting the captaincy. Rizwan is simply a bully quality being, and helium decided himself that helium would marque mode for me, and that is however things worked out."Afridi's erstwhile stint arsenic T20I skipper lasted little than six months aft taking implicit from Babar Azam, who had resigned pursuing Pakistan's mediocre show successful the Cricket World Cup 2023. During this period, Afridi led lone 1 T20I bid against New Zealand earlier being replaced by Babar.

The 25-year-old Pakistani pacer expressed his collaborative enactment attack and committedness to squad improvement."I person nary ego and I speech to everyone for advice, adjacent our erstwhile captains. I don't look astatine things that happened successful the past," helium stated. "Everyone has to instrumentality work if you privation to amended arsenic a team. You can't support connected saying Babar, Rizwan oregon Fakhar volition bash it, it is arsenic a squad we person to click and instrumentality responsibility."Afridi emphasized his enactment for some in-form and struggling players, noting Rizwan's beardown show arsenic Pakistan's starring run-scorer successful one-day matches since 2023."As acold arsenic Rizwan is concerned, helium is Pakistan's top-scorer successful one-dayers since 2023. We are trying to backmost players who are not successful signifier truthful that they tin bash good successful aboriginal matches," Afridi remarked."As acold arsenic Rizwan is concerned, helium is Pakistan's top-scorer successful one-dayers since 2023. We are trying to backmost players who are not successful signifier truthful that they tin bash good successful aboriginal matches. Babar tin falter successful 1 oregon 2 matches but helium is successful bully interaction and I anticipation helium volition people a 100 soon," helium said.While the Pakistan Cricket Board hasn't specified his captaincy tenure, Afridi expressed his aspiration to pb the squad successful the 2027 World Cup.