Following Babar Azam's resignation from captaincy across all formats in November, Pakistan swiftly named Shaheen Shah Afridi as their new T20I captain and Shan Masood as their Test captain. Expressing his opinion, former Pakistan captain and dynamic batsman Shahid Afridi indicated his preference for wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan over left-arm fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi for the T20I captaincy. Afridi praised Rizwan as a 'fighter' and advocated for him as the most suitable candidate to lead Pakistan in the shortest format of the game.