Former Pakistan spinner Iqbal Qasim: “They are getting acclimatized to the conditions and will know the behaviour of [the] pitches. Now they should have no excuse to fail in England”
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Former left-arm spinner Iqbal Qasim believes that the Pakistan batsmen have no excuse not to do well in the upcoming series against England.
Former Pakistan batsman Faisal Iqbal: “Batting is failing badly in [the] practise games, 2 days in a row both teams and almost all batsmen have failed to score runs in these games”
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Former Pakistan cricketer Faisal Iqbal has lashed out at the national team’s batsmen, saying they have been “failing badly” in the intra-squad practice matches in England.
Faisal Iqbal: “Sadly in our culture, players with cricketing family genes don’t have margins of error like other players have in the team, one mistake and [the] media shoulders are used to settle scores and make that individual a villain and people start to abuse”
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Former Pakistan batsman Faisal Iqbal believes that opener Imam-ul-Haq is being treated like a “villain” and abused since he is former captain Inzamam-ul-Haq’s nephew.
Umar Akmal allegedly fully exposed himself to a trainer and asked “where is the fat”
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Veteran Pakistan batsmen Umar Akmal, Kamran Akmal and Salman Butt are all likely to be in trouble with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Yasir Shah was one of the Pakistan players who failed to achieve the minimum requirement on the first day of the fitness tests
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Pakistan spinner Yasir Shah, batsman Haris Sohail and all-rounder Imad Wasim failed to achieve the minimum requirement on the first day of the fitness tests held at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore.
Mickey Arthur: “I think Babar will be fine as captain, he’ll figure it out”
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Ex-Pakistan head coach Mickey Arthur believes Babar Azam will “be fine” as Twenty20 captain and isn’t doomed to fail.
Waqar Younis: “I told them no compromises on fitness, development of players who can play at the rate of three-and-a-half and four runs per over and seniors being told to retire at the right time, but nothing came of it”
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Legendary Pakistan pace bowler Waqar Younis has revealed that he provided the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) with a comprehensive plan on how to make the team better, but they didn’t follow it.
Shahid Afridi: “Pakistan failed to take advantage [of] the fact that they are the only team after the hosts who were in England well before the start of the mega event”
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Legendary Pakistan all-rounder and former captain Shahid Afridi believes that the national team failed to take advantage of the fact that they had more team than any other international team to get accustomed to the conditions in England ahead of the World Cup.
Imad Wasim: “If we won the trophy then I would be happy with my performances”
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Pakistan spin-bowling all-rounder Imad Wasim has said that he would have been pleased with his performance only if the national team had won the World Cup.
Sohail Tanvir: “The team combination was being groomed for this reason so one can also say that at the end of the day, the results show that this preparation came to nothing and we failed in our objectives”
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Pakistan left-arm seamer Sohail Tanvir believes that all the preparation conducted for the World Cup “came to nothing” as the national team failed to make it to the semi-finals.
