Jason Gillespie delivers stunning verdict on Shan Masood's captaincy after Take a look at collection loss to Bangladesh

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Pakistan Nationwide Cricket Staff red-ball head trainer Jason Gillespie delivered a blunt verdict at the captaincy of Shan Masood after the belief of the two-match collection towards the Bangladesh Nationwide Cricket Staff.

Shan Masood changed Babar Azam as Take a look at captain in past due 2023, and up to now, he has captained the workforce in two collection. He began his stint because the full-time skipper within the collection towards the Australia Nationwide Cricket Staff down below.

Beneath his management, Pakistan confronted an embarrassing 360-run defeat towards Pat Cummins & Co. within the collection opener in Perth sooner than shedding the following two suits by way of 79 runs and eight wickets in Melbourne and Sydney.

Then, Shan Masood not too long ago led the workforce in his first house collection towards Bangladesh, and he failed to lead his workforce to victory. Pakistan confronted a surprise 10-wicket defeat within the first Take a look at and a 6-wicket loss in the second one Take a look at to stand a whitewash at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.

His performances with the bat in the house suits towards the Najmul Hossain Shanto-led aspect have been additionally underwhelming. Shan Masood scored 6 & 14 within the series-opening conflict and delivered a moderately higher efficiency in the second one Take a look at, registering rankings of 57 & 28.

Pakistan’s situation in the house Checks has been so depressing that they have got been win-less for 1303 days, with their remaining house victory coming in early 2021.

In spite of Shan Masood being on a 5-match shedding streak, Jason Gillespie sponsored him, pronouncing that he has performed a just right process as a captain and the explanation in the back of Pakistan’s losses has been deficient workforce performances. He mentioned, as quoted by way of Cricket Pakistan:

“Shan I believe has led the aspect rather well. We simply haven’t performed neatly as a workforce and that’s the truth. We want to sharpen up on positive spaces and we will be able to sharpen up. I actually need to again and consider in those gamers, they’re just right sufficient and feature proven glimpses of the way just right we’re. We simply want to do it extra ceaselessly and constantly.”

Shan Masood did third-class captaincy: Jason Gillespie defends Pakistan captain however Tanvir Ahmed launches an assault

Even if Jason Gillespie sponsored the under-fire Masood, the previous Pakistan Nationwide Cricket Staff pacer Tanvir Ahmed ripped aside the red-ball captain, labeling his management as third-class.

“Babar ok towards bolney walon bolo ab shan masood ney 1/3 category captaincy ki ha (Individuals who have been criticizing Babar, now come ahead and say Shan did third-class captaincy,” the previous Pakistani pacer wrote on X.

Babar ok towards bolney walon bolo ab shan masood ney 1/3 category captaincy ki ha

— Tanveer Says (@ImTanveerA) September 3, 2024

He additionally took a dig at Babar Azam’s critics with a sarcastic publish on X, pronouncing that Azam was once answerable for the defeat as he was once going through Bangladesh by myself and the remainder of the gamers have been playing the marriage.

“Buhat afsos howa ha pakistan workforce check collection har gaye towards bangladesh or ye sab babar azam ki waja say howa kyn ok akela khail raha tha baqi sab shadi primary aye hain (Upset with Pakistan workforce shedding Take a look at collection towards Bangladesh as a result of Babar Azam as a result of he was once enjoying by myself towards them and remainder of the gamers had come to wait a marriage,” he wrote in every other publish.

Buhat afsos howa ha pakistan workforce check collection har gaye towards bangladesh or ye sab babar azam ki waja say howa kyn ok akela khail raha tha baqi sab shadi primary aye hain

— Tanveer Says (@ImTanveerA) September 3, 2024