Basit Ali: “The report is being prepared against Shaheen Afridi and Mohammad Rizwan that they have formed a separate group, which is wrong. Don’t put your blame on the others. Otherwise, Pakistan cricket will be destroyed”
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Former Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali is genuinely concerned that left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi and wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan will be blamed for all the problems the national team is encountering at the moment.
Rashid Latif: “On the road to the World Cup, we are playing 7 matches. The time is very short. If they lose, the board will blame Kirsten or Babar Azam. This is our tradition”
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Former Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Rashid Latif believes limited overs captain Babar Azam and white-ball head coach Gary Kirsten will be the scapegoats if the men in green fail to perform in the 2024 T20 World Cup.
Wasim Akram: “It is the fault of the entire system and only Babar Azam should not be made a scapegoat out of this”
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Legendary left-arm seamer Wasim Akram made it clear that he doesn’t want to see Babar Azam “made a scapegoat” for Pakistan’s failures as of late.
Shoaib Akhtar: “If you lose the Test match because of wrong selection, then there will be strong criticism”
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Legendary Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar believes that head coach and chief selector Misbah-ul-Haq will be blamed if the national team lose the first Test against England.
“I would like to maybe see results in every single Test match”
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Legendary West Indies batsman Brian Lara believes that eliminating draws from Test matches could be a way to revive the format.
Shastri (pictured above) allegedly told Naik “great wicket” in a sarcastic tone
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Wankhede Stadium curator Sudhir Naik has lodged a complaint with the Mumbai Cricket Association after claiming that India team director Ravi Shastri and bowling coach B Arun both launched a verbal tirade against him.
“I didn’t think I was doing anything wrong”
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Australia opener Chris Rogers has admitted that he was naive, but had no idea he was doing anything wrong after his company was banned from selling hospitality packages for the second Ashes Test at Lord’s.
The blast, which killed two people, occurred very close to Gaddafi Stadium
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The third and final ODI between Pakistan and Zimbabwe in Lahore will go ahead as scheduled despite a suicide attack near Gaddafi Stadium during the second match.
“We have a fantastic dressing room, and there have been no issues”
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India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni has rubbished reports that opening batsman Shikhar Dhawan and Virat Kohli were involved in a verbal spat on the fourth day of the second Test against Australia in Brisbane.
“Afghanistan’s cricket board does not support cricket for women, even though I have 3,700 girl cricketers across Afghanistan”
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Just four years after it was formed, the Afghanistan women’s cricket team has been dissolved due to Taliban threats, insecurity and conservative beliefs.
