Watch: Aaron Finch presents Babar Azam birthday cake during 20-20 World Cup event

Ahead of the 20-20 World Cup 2022, the World Cricket Governing staging an event featuring captains of all participating teams. The event is the curtain raiser for the event in Australia, starting October 16. During the event, the home team’s skipper Aaron Finch’s gesture for Pakistan’s Babar Azam has become the talk of the town. Apparently, the former brought a cake for Azam in the middle of the event to celebrate the latter’s birthday.

In the video that is going viral, host of the show and former cricketer, Melanie Jones asked the Pakistan skipper to hold on for a surprise. After a few second, the Aussie skipper appeared with a birthday cake in his hands and moved towards Babar. The latter received that cake with grace and seemed happy with the gesture from Finch. Notably, their bonding goes back to Australia’s tour of Pakistan early this year.

Watch the video here

https://twitter.com/grassrootscric/status/1581123568322027520?s=20&t=nlyIhtE_jQTCtYtDaDVeyA

Australia will be looking to defend their title, a feat never achieved in the history of the tournament. Also, the defending champions would also like to become the first win to win the title at home. The best performance from a host team was in 2012 when Sri Lanka reached the final, only to lose against the eventual winners, West Indies. The Aussies are slotted in the Group 1 against their Ashes rivals, England, trans-tasman rivals, New Zealand, Afghanistan. Two more teams will join them from the first round.

On the other hand, Pakistan is also searching for their second title since 2009. At that time, the team won the title under now retired, Younis Khan, beating Sri Lanka in the final. Since then, they qualified for the semis in 2010, 2012, and 2021. Currently, they have the confidence of winning the tri-series against New Zealand and Bangladesh. Pakistan are slotted in the Group 2 alongside arch-rivals, India, Bangladesh, and South Africa. Two more teams will join them from the first round.