New Pakistan captain Mohammad Rizwan hopes to see ‘same kind of atmosphere in team we had earlier’

The 32-year-old, who replaced Babar Azam arsenic the captain, has hoped to assistance the squad regain their momentum.

“One of my wishes is to spot the Pakistan squad successful the aforesaid benignant of ambiance that we had a mates of years ago. We each were with each different astatine immoderate signifier whether things were moving for america oregon not. Because of that, a batch of things worked successful our favour backmost then. The aforesaid things are contiguous present also. But the quality is that we person much young endowment on with seniors and we privation that we each arsenic a squad gel together. It’s a spot hard erstwhile the seniors are playing and erstwhile the young batch comes and takes clip to recognize things. I conjecture during the Australia series, we volition regain the aforesaid momentum which we had earlier,” Rizwan told PCB’s authoritative societal media channel.

The past 2 years person seen Pakistan’s white-ball teams facing radical signifier exits successful the ODI World Cup successful India and the T20 World Cup successful USA and West Indies. It besides saw Babar Azam resign from the white-ball captaincy doubly with the latest announcement coming earlier this month.

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Rizwan, who had earlier been Pakistan’s vice-captain nether Azam, besides spoke astir his ideology arsenic a captain.

“A skipper is arsenic bully arsenic the spot his squad has, whether it beryllium bowling oregon batting. And the prime of a bully skipper is to bring the full squad unneurotic and who to telephone connected astatine important moments. When the full squad is together, the full squad is disposable and it’s not astir immoderate 1 idiosyncratic oregon captain. I anticipation we volition spot young endowment coupled with elder players giving their champion for Pakistan. For me, each individuals successful the squad are captains. It’s conscionable 1 happening that I volition beryllium tossing the coin and signing the squad sheet,” said Rizwan.

Pakistan person ne'er won an ODI bid successful Australia. Their past bid successful Australia resulted successful a 1-4 nonaccomplishment against the hosts successful 2017. The squad has besides ne'er won a T20I bid successful Australia with a 0-2 nonaccomplishment against the hosts successful 2019 being the latest.

Apart from the Australia series, Rizwan has acceptable his sights connected winning events similar Champions Trophy successful Pakistan adjacent year, the 2026 T20I World Cup successful India and Sri Lanka and the 2028 LA Olympics.

“Last clip erstwhile we played Test bid there, we mislaid by precise adjacent margins and we had a accidental successful each match. It’s not similar that we cannot triumph against Australia due to the fact that we person not defeated them ever successful a bid successful Australia. Things volition alteration and we are going determination with an purpose to win. Second happening is that we person been losing successful semis oregon finals successful large events. There is the Champions Trophy coming successful Pakistan arsenic good the World Cup successful India. So it’s a immense accidental for america to support them successful our imaginativeness and hole keeping these events successful mind. The LA Olympics 2028 is besides 1 of my targets,” signed disconnected Rizwan.