India, Aug. 29 -- Pakistan's new T20I captain Salman Agha has the task of trying to get the team to a stage where they can compete for silverware again. Only a few days away from the start of the 2025 Asia Cup, Agha will want to establish Pakistan's credentials as a team that is a contender and a challenger when it comes to latter stages of tournaments, but a team in transition, they have a lot of work to do.

Pakistan's results in T20 competitions of late have been subpar to say the least, looking uncompetitive against the better teams and dropping too many matches against teams historically considered to be a tier below. Results such as the super over loss to USA during the 2024 World Cup even prompted one journalist, Shahid Hashmi, to ...