India, March 15 -- Babar Azam has to be the most ridiculed cricketer of all time. Multiple things have gone wrong for him in the last few years. Just as his form went down, social media picked up. Pakistan not doing well in most spheres has also added to his misery. Struggling countries also struggle at sports, more often than not.

In the last few years, he has been called a fraud. He has been called incompetent. As Pakistan captain, he was accused of creating a coterie, an inner sanctum of players to serve their own interests, pushing everything important to the back, including the interests of the team.

But Babar is not a fraud. There was a time when he was scoring a lot of runs across all formats. He is the highest run-getter in the ...