Babar Azam’s roast show in the commentary box changed as Aakash Chopra, Parthiv Patel go wild in England vs NEP

Parthiv Patel and Aakash Chopra trolled Babar Azam during England vs Nepal match: Pakistan won against Netherlands in the first match of the 2026 T20 World Cup. Faheem Ashraf got the Men in Green over the line when they were struggling at one point in the game.

Salman Ali Aga’s team was ahead in the game until the wicket of Sahabzada Farhan fell. As the team collapsed from 98/2 to 114/7, they were found struggling with 29 runs required in the last two. In the game, Babar Azam, who has been one of the most experienced batsmen for Pakistan, also gave his wicket after scoring 15 runs in 18 balls.

Pakistan coach trolled Babar Azam

Babar has often been criticized for playing slowly and putting his team under pressure. Pakistan head coach Mike Hesson looked angry after Babar threw away his wicket to Roelof van der Merwe. Since in T20 these days there are more impactful innings than long innings, Babar Azam has always been on the other side of it.

After Pakistan’s three-wicket win against the Dutch, former Pakistan coach Basit Ali also criticized him in the YouTube show The Game Plan, questioning his playing style and also mentioned that he has never been the No. 1 cricketer for Pakistan in the shortest format of the game.

Former wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal also believes that the management is forcibly fitting him at number 4, as there are many better cricketers in the country who can play fast and impressive innings.

Parthiv Patel and Aakash Chopra took a dig at Babar Azam

Similarly, while commenting on Star Sports during the ongoing match between England and Nepal, there was a funny conversation between former wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel and opener Aakash Chopra and they took a little dig at Babar and his slow style of batting. None of them mentioned names; However, it was pretty clear for fans to know who they were talking about.

Parthiv Patel in a conversation with former opener Aakash Chopra said, “I think Aakash, when someone is batting very fast, we say he is batting like Abhishek Sharma. So we should find a name, when someone is batting slow, who is he batting like? What name comes in your mind? You can say. I have a question, so you have to answer that whose strike rate is this batting. Is it?”

Aakash Chopra replied, “Please don’t push me in that direction again and again. By the way, I have been doing commentary since the time of Mughal-e-Azam.” Earlier, Mohammad Kaif’s on-air comment about Pakistan batsman Babar Azam had gone viral.

Here is the video:

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Babar’s style does not suit T20I

“You told him to hit a six, but where could he hit it? The ground was set back, he doesn’t have that power and hitting sixes is not his style,” Kaif said.

In the shortest format of the game, Babar has a strike rate of 128.15 and an average of 39.30, he has scored 4520 runs in 140 matches.

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