Kamran Akmal: “Nobody will talk [about] Iftikhar Ahmed’s statement about the middle order batter. If the same thing had been done by Umar Akmal, then it would have been taken against him”
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Former Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Kamran Akmal believes his brother Umar would have been absolutely bashed if he had called himself a tailender instead of a middle order batsman like Iftikhar Ahmed did.
Iftikhar Ahmed: “I call myself a tailender because I bat very low down the [order] for Pakistan. I’m a top order batter in domestic cricket”
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Big-hitting batsman Iftikhar Ahmed said he called himself a tailender since he bats “very low down the [order] for Pakistan”.
Pakistan batsman Iftikhar Ahmed: “I am not a middle order batter, I am a lower order batter. I am not an all-rounder, I am a tailender. If you see, I bat at No. 7 or 8. And if you look at the all-rounders and middle order batters around the world, you’d see they bat at No. 4 or 5”
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Pakistan big-hitter Iftikhar Ahmed has surprisingly said that he considers himself to be a tailender rather than a middle order batsman.
Wahab Riaz: “As a bowler, aggression is the only thing that you have, and whenever I ask about Babar from Amir, he always speaks positively about him and says that Babar Azam is a world class player. He never denied it”
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Wahab Riaz has defended Pakistan left-arm seamer Mohammad Amir, saying he always “speaks positively” about limited overs captain Babar Azam.
Mohammad Hafeez: “We make all-rounders [out of] every other bowler who hits a six. Mohammad Wasim Jr is just a tailender and not an all-rounder”
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Former Pakistan team director and interim head coach Mohammad Hafeez said it is wrong to classify fast bowler Mohammad Wasim Jnr as an all-rounder just because he can hit sixes.
Mohammad Amir: “First, I would like to ask those who have misrepresented this matter. Show me one interview in which I said that Babar is an average player or a tailender”
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Mohammad Amir, the left-arm fast bowler, has asked people to show him where he said Pakistan captain Babar Azam was “an average player or a tailender”.
Shaheen Shah Afridi: “He (Amir) said that about Babar? That is surprising”
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Shaheen Shah Afridi said he is very surprised by Mohammad Amir for the disrespect he showed to Pakistan captain Babar Azam.
Shaheen Shah Afridi: “I think this is not the right way to address Babar”
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Shaheen Shah Afridi has taken aim at Mohammad Amir for his rudeness towards Babar Azam, saying the left-arm seamer can’t talk to the Pakistan captain that way.
Shaheen Shah Afridi: “If we won’t respect him as captain, who else will?”
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Shaheen Shah Afridi has told Mohammad Amir to show some respect after the left-arm fast bowler was disrespectful to Pakistan captain Babar Azam.
Yasir Shah: “If you give such statements right before the match… (it isn’t good)”
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Yasir Shah has scolded Pakistan left-arm seamer Mohammad Amir for the remarks he made about captain Babar Azam ahead of this year’s Pakistan Super League (PSL).
