Why Babar Azam is Failing to Perform in 2026

Babar Azam is Pakistan's top cricketing legend, and everyone who loves cricket also loves watching his cover drive as well as his batting skills. Other cricketing legends admire his cover drive as the best cover drive of current times.

He have made a lot of records in his name for Pakistan and still even his form is not as before he's breaking records with his previous contributions. He is fastest to 5000 ODI runs and joint fastest to 6000 too and also scored the highest 4th innings score by a captain in test history. Records like scoring 3 consecutive centuries twice and also being one of the highest run scorers of t20 cricket earned him ICC awards too. He have scored 14000+ International runs with 31+ centuries across formats.

What Happened to Babar Azam?
Babar Azam, After being a cricketer of such great class is under great criticism by fans as well as the cricket legends over his poor form. Out of them there are many who don't even know how to bat still using bad words about him. Lets dig deep in it and see what is just happened to Babar Azam.

The pressure of Strike Rate
The T20 or even one day games has evolved so much that it reward risk taking and fearless power hitting. Here, Babar Azam's natural game is to anchor the inning not taking those kind of risks. The demand to increase strike rate build more pressure on Babar's ability to score runs and when he came out of his natural style to hit leads him getting out uncharacteristically.

Batting position change
Babar's preferred batting slot is at no.3 or even he can manage to open the innings too but moving him further away and inside middle order is what making him do mistakes early in the innings.

Incoming ball issues
Experts believe that Babar Azam has a technical issue against pace deliveries which nip back in or even sharp bouncer can disturb him too. Problems with his front foot leaving a major gap between bat and pad which makes him caught behind or bowled so early in the innings.

There are many other facts are there too and can be discussed in detail about Babar Azam but he needs to work on his ability score with better strike rate and also with his technique. But for many, he still is a Bobzy the King. Please do leave a comment here if you like the article or have any feedback.