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Former Pakan bowler Shoaib questioned the skillsets of the current Pakan cricket team after their loss against India on Sunday in Dubai. India defeated Pakan six-wickets to put the hosts and the defending champions on the brink of elimination.
“Would you rate Babar to Virat?,” Shoaib asked in the show “Game On Hai.”
“Would you rate Shreyas Iyer to Khushdil Shah?
“Would you rate Rohit Sharma to Mohammad Rizwan?
“For the past ten years I am lenting this is a talented group. Where is the talent? You become star socring runs and taking wickets. I can’t see any talent.
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Pakan’s Abrar Ahmed, left, celebrates the wicket of India’s Shubman Gill, left, with his teammates during the ICC Champions Trophy cricket match between India and Pakan at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, United Arab Emirates. (AP)
“It was an utterly disappointing and heartless performance from Pakan. But we should not be surprised because its not happening for the first time.
“We talk about intent all the time but I think they even don’t have the skillset. i don’t know what to tell them they are just not good enough.
“It is a clueless management, brainless captaincy. Absolutely average team who displayed their average skillset out in the middle and there is nothing to talk about it. They don’t have any game awareness,” he said.
Shoaib Malik, another panel on the show said this Pakan cricket team are a good four overs cricketer but when it comes to the ODI they are just not good enough. Story continues below this ad
Pakan players walk after their loss to India in the ICC Champions Trophy cricket match at Dubai International Cricket Stadium, United Arab Emirates, Sunday. (AP)
“Ye chaar overs ke batters and 4 overs ke bowlers (They are batters and bowlers of four overs). And in the one-day cricket you can’t win games with these players. We have potential in T20 cricket but we don’t know how to convert those potential in the longer formats,” said Malik.
Meanwhile, Mohammad Hafeez said there is talent in Pakan cricket team but the management is clueless.
“Talent is there but there is no planning. choice they didn’t picked a quality opener. choice we didn’t picked an extra spinner. We dominated in these conditions for the past ten years as a home team. We should know what the winning mantra of Dubai,” said Hafeez.
“To me 240 on this track was a very good total. If we would have a quality spinners, the result could have been different.”