Is Virat Kohli the main reason for Babar Azam leaving captaincy? Pakistani media makes a shocking claim

Finally what many cricket fans of Pakistan were waiting for happened. Babar Azam has left ODI and T20 captaincy. Babar Azam was the captain of Pakistan's ODI and T20 team but he has now resigned from this post. Babar Azam announced his resignation from captaincy on social media. But the question here is why did Babar Azam leave the captaincy? PCB did not even ask Babar Azam to leave the captaincy. There are reports that there was talk of keeping Babar Azam as captain till the Champions Trophy but despite this, the player left the captaincy. By the way, Pakistani media claims that Virat Kohli is a big reason for Babar Azam leaving the captaincy.

Babar was persuaded to leave captaincy by taking Virat's name.

Geo News journalist Arfa Firoz Jake claims that Babar Azam was under a lot of pressure after the crushing defeat in the T20 World Cup 2024 and this was the biggest reason for him leaving the captaincy. However, this journalist also claimed that Babar Azam was persuaded by his close friends to leave the captaincy by giving the example of Virat Kohli. Just like Virat Kohli left the captaincy of Team India in 2021, Babar Azam has also taken this decision and now he wants to focus on his game.

🚨 INSIDE NEWS - Close friends of Babar Azam gave him example of Virat Kohli and in other words you can say Babar has resigned from captaincy following the footsteps of Kohli. Babar wants to focus on individual performance just like Kohli. #BabarAzam𓃵 7/n

— Arfa Feroz Zake (@ArfaSays_) October 1, 2024

The Geo News journalist also claims that Babar Azam did not want to become the captain of Pakistan again but his family forced him to play this role again. But this decision of Babar Azam proved to be completely wrong. Babar Azam had made up his mind to leave the captaincy and that is why he did not become the captain in the recently held Champions ODI Cup in Pakistan.