Curated By: Aakash Biswas
Last Updated: September 17, 2023, 12:54 IST
Pakistani Fans Have a Meltdown After Sri Lanka Knock Out Babar Azam’s Team from Asia Cup 2023. (Image: X/@ArihaFatihma)
Former all-rounder Mohammad Hafeez has come ahead in Babar Azam’s defence, urging the followers to not scrutinize one single particular person over the crew’s defeat within the Asia Cup.
Pakistan began their Asia Cup 2023 marketing campaign as favourites and have been the primary aspect to qualify for the Super Fours. But the defeats by the hands of India and Sri Lanka knocked them out of the continental occasion. Pakistan’s exit from the match has definitely left the followers fuming whereas a piece of cricket lovers are calling for a direct change within the management.
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Pakistan Captain Babar Azam has been on the receiving finish for the reason that crew misplaced two video games on the trot within the Asia Cup. At the identical time, a number of media reviews have claimed a rift within the dressing room following the elimination. Meanwhile, former cricketer Mohammad Hafeez has come ahead in Babar’s defence, urging the followers to not scrutinize one single particular person over the crew’s defeat.
“Don’t treat just one person as the culprit. Evaluate the results and decide why the team succeeded or faltered,” Hafeez stated.
“I’m not favouring an individual. Just wanted to convey that I’ve tasted failures in my career and I know how it feels when you lose a World Cup final. But this is not the time to talk about changing the captain. Instead, we should support him and send India to the World Cup with our best wishes.
“Let’s wait and watch what happens there and then decide if we want to continue with him or we have someone better to take the responsibility,” he added.
Muhammad Hafeez About Babar Azam Captaincy“This is not the time to change the captain, we should all support and facilitate him so he can bring better results in World Cup ” pic.twitter.com/DCvm7T6s6J
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Hafez further recalled Pakistan’s 228-run loss to India in the Asia Cup, stating that it wasn’t Babar’s responsibility alone to score those many runs and neither did he concede those 228 runs all by himself.
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“228 runs naa toh akele kaptaan ne karne the, naa hi usne akele khaaye (Neither Babar had to score those 228 runs, nor he conceded those runs). The players are responsible for that failure, and the management is responsible. I heard a statement that we hadn’t lost a match in the past three months… I couldn’t understand that. 3 months of success doesn’t give you the license to lose this badly. I understand that it hurts because we lost that way to India, the margin of defeat was big,” Hafeez stated.
“I believe Pakistan were better in the first game that was abandoned. But the second game, it caused damage to our mental state. And the way we lost to Sri Lanka, we weren’t really there mentally. We were still hurting with loss against India,” he added.
Pakistan will be back to action during the World Cup warm-up games, starting September 29. The men in green will begin their campaign in the tournament on October 6 against the Netherlands.
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