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The ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is scheduled to start from February 19, with which the host Pakistan finally announced its squad on 31 January. While some players returned to the team, the young opening batsman Saim Ayub was not elected due to unfit. In such a situation, the responsibility of opening for the Pakistani team in the Champions Trophy is believed to be the handling of former captain Babar Azam with Fakhar Zaman. Babar Azam was given the example of Sachin Tendulkar to open the selectors of the Pakistani team, after which he accepted the challenge.
Faith Babar can also perform like Tendulkar in the opening
A source of Pakistan Cricket Board said in his statement to PTI that it was clear a day after Saim Ayub's injury, he would be out of the ground for at least 2 months and in such a situation, his Champions Trophy It is also difficult to play. In such a situation, the selectors of the Pakistani team, Aqib Javed and Azhar Ali, talked to Babar Azam to take responsibility in the opening after being completely cleared of Saim Ayub, in which it will continue not only for this tournament but also further. The selectors told Babur that he feels that the whole career changed after the opening responsibility in Sachin Tendulkar, he can do something similar. Babur accepted this challenge, accepting the matter. Let me tell you that Sachin played 69 matches of his ODI career as a middle order batsman, after which in 1994 he got a chance to play in the opening in the Auckland ODI against New Zealand and then he never looked back.
So far, Babur has opened in ODI only 2 times
Babar Azam plays as an opening batsman for the Pakistani team in T20 International, but in the ODI, he has batted as an opener in just 2 innings out of 120 innings of 123 matches played in his career so far. Babur has scored an unbeaten 62 and 4 runs in it and both of them are in the ODI series against England in 2015. The Pakistani team is to play their first match against the New Zealand team on February 19 in the upcoming Champions Trophy, after which the Pakistani team will field on 23 February to play their last match against Bangladesh on February 27 in Group-A against Bangladesh.
(PTI Inputs)
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