Ahmed Shehzad: “Like always, the Pakistan Cricket Board has decided to make Shaheen Shah Afridi the scapegoat this time. Briefings have taken place, and in the coming times, you will see Shaheen on and off the team”
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Pakistan batsman Ahmed Shehzad believes the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) have made left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi their scapegoat.
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.
Imran Nazir: “When the entire team is not doing anything, you can’t blame Babar as much as you want by lifting him, but now I also see that everyone is behind him, why don’t you say anything to the other players?”
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Former Pakistan power-hitter Imran Nazir expressed his frustration at the fact that star batsman Babar Azam is always blamed when things go wrong for the men in green.
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.
Misbah-ul-Haq: “This is not the right attribute to target one person; obviously, your other ten players are also playing, you also have management”
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Former Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq believes it is unfair for people to make captain Babar Azam the scapegoat for the entire team’s failures.
Atiq-uz-Zaman: “Aaqib also said that he wouldn’t let Umar Akmal play for Lahore Qalandars till the time he is the coach”
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Former Pakistan cricketer Atiq-uz-Zaman has claimed that legendary pace bowler Aaqib Javed refused to let Umar Akmal play when he was head coach of the Lahore Qalandars in the 2018 edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL).
Yasir Arafat: “I feel that the decision to relieve Sarfaraz of the T20 captaincy is simply a case of finding a scapegoat for the humiliating loss to Sri Lanka in the T20 series”
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Former Pakistan all-rounder Yasir Arafat believes Sarfaraz Ahmed was made a “scapegoat” after the national team’s loss to Sri Lanka.
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“You were looking for some heads to roll and, for some reason, Kevin Pietersen’s head was in the way”
Legendary West Indies batsman Sir Vivian Richards has announced that England made batsman Kevin Pietersen their “scapegoat” following the national team’s disastrous tour of Australia.
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“If he is not the man to take England forward I don’t know who is”
Former England captain Andrew Strauss has announced that head coach Andy Flower should not become a scapegoat for the national team’s Ashes failure.
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Cronje’s father believes the Indian authorities made his son into a “scapegoat”
Deceased South African captain Hansie Cronje’s father, Ewie, has announced that “I’m considering legal action against the Indian police” after his son was implicated in the 2000 match-fixing scandal in a chargsheet filed by Delhi police.