Salim Malik, Pakistan’s former captain, has accused Imad Wasim of purposely squandering balls in the team’s six-run loss to archrivals India in the T20 World Cup in New York. Pakistani hitters were reduced to 113 for 7 in New York on Sunday after consuming 59 dot balls while chasing an uninspiring 120-run goal. Wasim needed 23 balls to score his 15 runs in the losing cause. “You look at his (Wasim) innings and it appears as if he was wasting balls not scoring runs and making things difficult in the run-chase,” Malik stated on the 24 News channel.
Another former captain, Shahid Afridi, believes all is not well in the Pakistan dressing room, and some players are unhappy with captain Babar Azam.
“A captain pulls everyone together; he either ruins the team environment or builds it. “Let this World Cup finish, and I will speak openly,” Afridi stated.
“I have such a relationship with Shaheen (Afridi) that if I talk about him, people will say I am favouring my son-in-law,” he stated.
Afridi’s daughter is married to Shaheen, a left-arm bowler who was replaced as T20 skipper just before the World Cup after only one series in New Zealand.
Former speedster Shoaib Akhtar was unequivocal in his criticism of Pakistan’s poor performance, claiming that the Babar Azam-led team does not deserve to be in the Super Eight stage.
“I believe I should provide a template text. Disappointed and hurt are automatically set to be posted. The entire country is down and out. Morale is down. Somehow, you must demonstrate intent to win. Does Pakistan deserve to be left out of the Super Eight? “God knows,” Akhtar stated in a video message on ‘X’, the previous Twitter.
