Cool. They played well. I am glad we got the win: Australia’s Pat Cummins takes dig at Mohammad Hafeez’s ‘Pakan played better than the other team’ comment | Cricket News

Australia on Friday defeated Pakan in the second Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to go 2-0 up in the ongoing Test series. However, the victory has been overshadowed the controversy surrounding Mohammad Rizwan’s dismissal with Pakan’s team director Mohammad Hafeez slamming the officiating and saying that the visitors played better ‘than the other team.”
“The whole game I will sum up, our Pakan team played better than the other team in general,” Hafeez said in a press conference after the match.
Australian skipper Pat Cummins in response did not have much to say about the claim. “Ahhhh. Cool. They played well. I am glad we got the win. It doesn’t really matter, does it? It is the team who wins at the end,” the captain said as per news.com.au.
Coming to the Rizwan dismissal, chasing 318 runs, Pakan were well in the game at 219-5 when Rizwan, batting on 35, tried to leave a short ball. The ball hit him on the lower right arm and carried to wicket-keeper Alex Carey, and the Australians appealed.
Michael Gough’s on-field umpire did not give it out, and Cummins challenged the decision and sent it upstairs. Third umpire Richard Illingworth referred to the spike on ultra edge as the ball passed Rizwan’s wrband, and Illingworth asked Gough to overturn his original decision of not out. Noticeably, there was no mark on the hotspot as the ball passed Rizwan.
The Pakan keeper-batter was unhappy with the decision and suggested that the ball had brushed his forearm instead of the wrband, and with the wicket, the Australian skipper picked up his 250th Test match wicket.
Australia won the first test in Perth 360 runs. The third test in the three-match series is scheduled to begin Jan. 3 at the Sydney Cricket Ground, where Pakan won its last test in Australia in 1995.