{"id":677144,"date":"2026-05-17T18:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677144\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T18:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:01:21","slug":"babar-azam-calls-on-batters-to-play-with-pain-after-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/677144\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar Azam calls on batters to \u2018play with pain\u2019 after collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYLHET: Pakistan middle-order batter Babar Azam has urged the batters to take responsibility after another failure against Bangladesh in the second Test at Sylhet International Cricket Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan were in deep trouble at 79-4 on day two. Salman Ali Agha and Babar Azam then resisted with a 63-run partnership that steadied the innings.<\/p>\n<p>However, Babar\u2019s soft dismissal off Nahid Rana\u2019s bowling sparked a collapse that they could never recover from. The visitors then lost five wickets, adding only 65 runs.\u00a0 As a result, they slumped from 142-5 to 207-9 and 232 all out.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the media after the day\u2019s play, Babar emphasized the lack of big partnerships as a vital factor behind the team\u2019s shambolic batting display.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pitch is very good, and the ball is coming very nicely. We have not built a partnership.\u00a0 When Agha [Salman Ali Agha] and I were playing in the middle, we were just trying to build a partnership, but unfortunately, we have not built a long partnership,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>He praised Bangladesh fast bowler Nahid Rana, calling him the fastest bowler currently in red-ball cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Follow us on our Official\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029Va9kjxo6mYPLvlX1UJ43\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WhatsApp channel<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe [Nahid Rana] is a nice bowler, and I think he is one of the fastest bowlers right now in Red Ball cricket. Every second team has a 140-150 bowler, so you try to handle those things. I try to do my level best to play my natural game,\u201d Babar explained.<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old described his own dismissal and Agha\u2019s wicket as a turning point that shifted the game\u2019s momentum. He urged Pakistan batters to be more responsible after repeated batting collapses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the turning point is my and Salman Ali Agha\u2019s wicket, because after that we have not built the partnership, so I think these two dismissals change the momentum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main thing is that as a batting unit we have to take some responsibility and we have to play with some pain, because our issue is that whenever a wicket falls, it falls back to back, so you are not able to handle that. We have to figure out this thing and the same thing has happened again,\u201d Babar concluded.<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/a-sports.tv\/babar-azam-reaches-9000-run-landmark-in-current-decade\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Babar Azam extends lead in decade run charts with special milestone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SYLHET: Pakistan middle-order batter Babar Azam has urged the batters to take responsibility after another failure against Bangladesh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":677145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,40807,740,326328,85],"class_list":["post-677144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-babar-azam","tag-cricket","tag-pakistan-bangladesh","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/677145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=677144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=677144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}