By Ben Gardner

As a captain and as a person, Babar Azam is famously inscrutable, and that can make it hard to tell exactly how responsible he is for Pakistan’s fortunes. Equally, in the febrile world of Pakistan cricket, you fancy an element of distance is a wise thing to adopt, and as they have built an increasingly threatening side, Babar has been the only constant in a scene of ceaseless flux.
In the head coach role, Misbah-ul-Haq gave way to Saqlain Mushtaq who was moved aside for Grant Bradburn, with Mickey Arthur supporting from afar. Further afield, and Imran Khan’s removal as p...