It has been revealed by Pakistan cricket captain Babar Azam’s father Azam Siddique that his son played the match against India knowing that his mother was fighting for life on a ventilator back home.
His mother had undergone surgery and is now recovering well, but the three games that Pakistan played in the Group stage, in all three of them, Babar had at the back of his mind, the condition of his mother which till then wasn’t stable.
Writing an Instagram post, Mr Siddique informed how his son played under severe distress but still didn’t lose his composure.
"It's time for my nation to know some truth,” Babar’s father said in the post. “Congratulations to all of you on the victory in the three games. There was a big test at our house. On the day the match was against India, that day Babar's mother was on a ventilator. Babar played all three matches in severe distress. I came here so that Babar may not get weak,” he added.
In the match against India, Babar scored an unbeaten 62 to see his team through by 10 wickets in a record jinx breaking game. In the match against New Zealand he did get out cheaply but his team was rescued by experienced Shoaib Malik and Asif Ali.
And in the Afghanistan game, he once again scored a crucial fifty but got out an important juncture of the game. But Asif Ali once again made sure that Pakistan ended up on the right side of a tense game. In the next two games, Pakistan play Namibia and Scotland which look easy and if they win the two, they would go to the semi-finals as the top-ranked Group 2 team.