Pakistan suffered their first-ever loss whereas defending a 275-plus complete in ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup historical past as Afghanistan surprised the Men in Green chasing 283 runs in a canter in Chennai on Monday, October 23. While Iftikhar Ahmed and Shadab Khan helped Pakistan to recuperate from a tough scenario to get to a rating of 282, the hapless bowling assault made all of the arduous work of the batters come undone. The bowling has been poor however the fielding did not assist as effectively given the gamers simply gave away 15-20 runs attributable to poor fielding.
Legendary Pakistan pacer Wasim Akram tore into the group’s fielding, lack of effort and fitness levels saying that the fielding show was embarrassing and there must be a range criterion with regard to fitness, which appears to be lacking in accordance with him.
Speaking on the Pavillion on A Sports, Akram mentioned, “It was embarrassing in the present day! Look on the fitness degree of Pakistan gamers. We’ve identified that these gamers haven’t had fitness exams in two years! Their faces are bulging! Lagta hai roz ath ath kilo nihariyan khandene (Looks like they’ve eight kilos of slow-cooked meat each day). These are skilled gamers, there must be standards! When Misbah-ul-Haq was coach, there have been fitness standards in place. Players hated him. But it labored! Fielding is all about fitness. That’s the place we’re missing.
On the identical panel, former Pakistan captain Moin Khan echoed Akram’s views saying that the gamers appeared lazy and drained out.
“For three months we performed cricket in Sri Lanka, the gamers have been drained out! You noticed that on the sector in the present day. It was clear. Players have been torpid and fatigued. No one was capable of subject. The prime cause for this was that you simply saved a tour of Sri Lanka earlier than the World Cup the place, everyone knows from expertise, that you simply get drained out!” Moin added.
Pakistan have now misplaced three out of their 5 video games to this point within the World Cup and are on the verge of early exit as do Afghanistan, who could have overwhelmed England as effectively, however they two are three in 5 when it comes to losses and to dream of a semi-final berth, they need to win all their remaining video games.
