India, Oct. 13 -- Pakistan batter Babar Azam's disastrous run in Test cricket continued on Sunday after he was dismissed for just 23 runs in the first innings of the opening Test match against South Africa at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. The former captain has now gone 34 months without a fifty on home soil, a streak that began in the 2022/23 series against New Zealand. In those 14 innings, Babar managed only 232 runs at 16.58 and has not scored more than 31.

Former Pakistan batter Salman Butt, speaking on his YouTube channel, lashed out at Babar for his continued ordinary run on home soil and bombarded him with the same question that Virat Kohli was asked amid his Test slump prior to retirement in May this year: why has he been avoidi...