{"id":21732,"date":"2020-05-19T19:13:53","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/?p=21732"},"modified":"2020-05-19T19:13:53","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T13:43:53","slug":"would-like-to-be-like-imran-khan-babar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/would-like-to-be-like-imran-khan-babar\/","title":{"rendered":"Would like to be like Imran Khan in my captaincy: Babar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pakistan Cricket Board<\/span><\/strong> <\/a>(PCB) recently appointed Babar Azam as Pakistan’s skipper in the limited-overs format. Babar got an extension of the format by succeeding former ODI captain Sarfaraz Ahmed.<\/p>\n\n\n

According to a report by PTI<\/em>, Babar said that he will implement Imran Khan\u2019s aggression in his captaincy. He also added that he will also brush up his English communication skill to be a complete leader.<\/p>\n\n\n

“Imran Khan was a very aggressive captain and I want to be like him. It is not an easy job captaining the Pakistan team but I am learning from my seniors and I have also had captaincy experience since my under-19 days,” <\/p>Babar Azam said.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n

Captaincy challenge but won\u2019t affect my batting<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n

The 25-year old player added in his statement that he won\u2019t be getting affected by his new role although it\u2019s a challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n

“It is an honour to lead one’s national team so it is not a burden for me at all. In fact, after becoming captain, I have to lead by example and be more responsible in my batting,” Babar Azam was quoted by PTI<\/em> .<\/p>\n\n\n

He also hoped that T20 World Cup would be held in its already scheduled time since he was keen to play and doing well in the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n

Learning skill to be a complete leader<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n

The star Pakistani batsman believes that a complete leader should able to interact well with media and also express himself the best with its audience and thus he is learning English.<\/p>\n\n\n

“These days I am also taking English classes besides focussing on my batting,” he said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n

Concluding his statement, the newly appointed captain said he wants his team to go up in the ranking as the current position is not satisfactory.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) recently appointed Babar Azam as Pakistan’s skipper in the limited-overs format. Babar got an extension of the format by succeeding former ODI captain Sarfaraz Ahmed. According to a report by PTI, Babar said that he will implement Imran Khan\u2019s aggression in his captaincy. He also added that he will also brush […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":21749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,318,4845],"tags":[730,2868],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kyrosports.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}