{"id":12970,"date":"2023-11-13T11:29:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T11:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/13\/video-fans-encircle-babar-azam-as-he-returns-to-lahore-after-gloomy-world-cup-campaign-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-11-13T11:29:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T11:29:54","slug":"video-fans-encircle-babar-azam-as-he-returns-to-lahore-after-gloomy-world-cup-campaign-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/13\/video-fans-encircle-babar-azam-as-he-returns-to-lahore-after-gloomy-world-cup-campaign-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Fans encircle Babar Azam as he returns to Lahore after gloomy World Cup Campaign &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>New Delhi: After disappointing the fans with a terrible performance in the ICC World Cup 2023, Pakistani cricket team\u2019s skipper Babar Azam finally flew back home on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his arrival at the Lahore airport, the ace batsman found himself encircled by a large group of fans who did something unexpected that even surprised the 29-year-old cricketer.<\/p>\n<h3>Babar Azam gets surrounded at Lahore Airport<\/h3>\n<p>Despite Babar and his team\u2019s complete failure in the World Cup 2023, the Pakistani fans began to cheer up their captain as soon as they spotted their caption near the exit of Lahore airport. Some of them even hounded the cricketer and tried to get a picture with him.<\/p>\n<p>However, the securing personnel, who were there at the spot, safely escorted Babar out of the airport and took him to his car. A visit of the whole incident is now going viral on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Warm welcome for the King Babar Azam at Airport \u2764\ufe0f <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Z2Ea1HLJKj\">pic.twitter.com\/Z2Ea1HLJKj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SAAD \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf0 (@SaadIrfan258) <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SaadIrfan258\/status\/1723824399692816761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 12, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Notably, Captain Babar Azam has been a target of trolls and critics who are behind his captaincy ever since Pakistan exited from World Cup 2023 with a lot of bad memories.<\/p>\n<h3>Pakistan\u2019s Campaign in World Cup 2023<\/h3>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"2Eu2PUvJLYw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Winning moment of India vs Pakistan World Cup match 2023 | Rohit Sharma | Shreyas Iyer\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Eu2PUvJLYw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>After receiving a warm welcome in India, Babar\u2019s Pakistani team started their World Cup 2023 campaign with a bang and won their first two games convincingly in Hyderabad.<\/p>\n<p>However, after receiving a crushing defeat at the hands of India on 15th October in Gujrat\u2019s Narendra Modi stadium, the green team fell apart and went on to lose their next three against Afghanistan, Australia, and South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Although they won a following rain-affected encounter against New Zealand and kept their Semi-final hope alive for a little while, the same got crushed to ashesafter Kiwis slammed Sri Lanka by 5 wickets and Pakistan faced a \u2018mission impossible\u2019 task of beating the defending champions England by 287 runs in order to make it to the knockout stage of the multinational tournament.<\/p>\n<p>However, let alone winning by 287 runs, the men in green received a huge 93-run defeat by England which threw them out of the World Cup 2023.<\/p>\n<h3>Babar wants to learn from mistake<\/h3>\n<p><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5285110\" src=\"https:\/\/newsroompost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1-24.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsroompost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1-24.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/newsroompost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1-24-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsroompost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1-24-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newsroompost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1-24-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsroompost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/1-24-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a post-match conference after losing against England, Pakistani captain Babar Azam accepted that his team\u2019s bowling unit gave away way too many runs and the same took away the game from them in the first innings itself. He later said that he and his team are willing to learn from their mistakes and make a comeback in the coming future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe conceded a few too many runs. We bowled a few loose deliveries towards the end. And our spinners\u2019 aren\u2019t taking wickets, which doesn\u2019t help. That has a big effect because you need to take wickets in the middle overs. The pitch is very true and the margin of error is very low for fast bowlers, which explains the big scores we have conceded. We will sit together and take stock. We\u2019ll take positives from this and discuss mistakes. I\u2019m keen to lead the rebuild\u201d, remarked the Pakistani caption in the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Babar scored 320 Runs with a relatively low strike rate of 82 in his 9 innings of the 2023 ODI World Cup. Although the star batter crossed the 50-run mark 4 times, he failed to smash even a single ton throughout the tournament.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] New Delhi: After disappointing the fans with a terrible performance in the ICC World Cup 2023, Pakistani cricket team\u2019s skipper Babar Azam finally flew back home on Sunday. Upon his arrival at the Lahore airport, the ace batsman found himself encircled by a large group of fans who did something unexpected that even surprised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12972,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12970\/revisions\/12972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}