Pakistan cricket team’s poor performance in T20 World Cup 2024 has disappointed the fans. And people like Wasim Akram expressed their displeasure with the team’s performance against USA and India.
Akram, who was crowned the champion fast bowler in the 1990s, demanded major changes in the team. He said the whole squad needs to change as they are not fit to play at this level.
“They think that if the Pakistani players don’t perform well, the coach will step down and nothing will happen. It’s time to retain the coach and change the whole team,” Akram told the sports channel after Pakistan bowed out against arch-rivals India at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York.
The former captain chastised the batsmen for not reading the conditions and losing wickets while playing unnecessary shots. Iftikhar said Ahmed had been part of a gang for years but did not know how to fight.
“I can’t say enough about Fakhar Zaman’s game awareness.” As for Rizwan, he said that batsman Jasprit Bumrah must play very carefully when he was brought back to take wickets for his team.
“They have been playing cricket for 10 years and I can’t teach them. Rizwa has no news of the game,” said Akram.
He also said that “players are not talking” about the frosty relationship between captain Babar Azam and pacer Shaheen Afridi. But Azhar Mahmood denied this and said that both the players are doing well.
“Enough is enough,” said Akram, who as a Pakistani felt insulted by the group for destroying the nation.
Waking up after two more defeats to the USA and Indian cricket team, PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi emerged with an insight that should be clear before the start of the extended edition of the Twenty20 World Cup.
Disappointed, Naqvi said he understood “what is going on in the team” and “the reason why they lost to rivals India”.
However, this concept only took off after Pakistan’s humiliating defeat by India.
“The defeat against India is disappointing in every way,” Naqvi, who holds the key portfolio of the Interior Ministry, told reporters at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York.
Naqvi explained that this low number required “major surgery”. He said that the people of Pakistan would soon witness a major overhaul.
It’s time to change the team, says Wasim Akram
