Shahid Afridi: “You need to give respect to your domestic players; they play all year and give great performances, like Salman Agha, Saud Shakeel, Sahibzada Farhan, pacer Mohammad Ali, and many others”
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Iconic Pakistan big-hitter Shahid Afridi has urged the selectors to “give respect” to fast bowler Mohammad Ali and batsmen Salman Ali Agha, Saud Shakeel and Sahibzada Farhan.
He noted that all four of them have been performing well in domestic cricket and should be playing for Pakistan regularly.
However, the 44-year-old feels as if the selection committee are ignoring their performances, which he deemed an “injustice”.
“You need to give respect to your domestic players; they play all year and give great performances, like Salman Agha, Saud Shakeel, Sahibzada Farhan, pacer Mohammad Ali, and many others, these players play all year domestic cricket, and if we ignore their performances and bring a player on the performances of three matches, then we are doing injustice,” Afridi was quoted as saying by Cricket Pakistan.
Pakistan recently featured in the 2024 T20 World Cup and lost to the United States of America and India before bouncing back to defeat Canada and Ireland.
Even though they won their last two group stage games, the men in green failed to progress to the Super Eights.
Pakistan Squad for 2024 T20 World Cup: Babar Azam (capt), Saim Ayub, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Fakhar Zaman, Azam Khan (wk), Usman Khan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Imad Wasim, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Amir, Abbas Afridi, Naseem Shah, Haris Rauf, Abrar Ahmed
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