“The mentality of Pakistan players does not match the modern Cricket,” says former Captain Shahid Afridi.
The title holders and the hosts of Pakistan crashed in the group phase of the Champions Trophy after losing to New Zealand and the Indian archival.
They still have a game to play, against Bangladesh on Thursday, but their tournament has finished, a disappointing end for their first cozy of an important international Crickt event in three decades.
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Uncertain accumulation
Rizwan was appointed White Ball pattern in October last year and took Pakistan to an impressive 2-1 victory in Odi about World Champions Australia, his first victory in the series in 22 years in the country.
They also won in Zimbabwe and inflicted their first homemade laundering in South Africa, with a 3-0 score.
But the fast -increase opener, Saim Ayub, injured his ankle during a later test in South Africa.
Pakistan delayed the announcement of his Champions Trophy team until the deadline to wait for Ayub’s aptitude, but the left -hander did not recover.
To add to the problems of the local team, his opening partner Fakhar Zaman was discarded from the rest of the tournament after the first game, a defeat of 60 races against New Zealand, with a muscle injury.
The very expected rhythm attack of Pakistan of Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah and Haris Rauf, rested from the test series to keep them fresh, seemed oxidized and could not control the overvalists.
Poor squad selection
The Pakistan selectors resisted the calls of former players and experts to include a second Spinner in the 15 -men team and, instead, they chose only one to open Ahmed.
They trusted the part -time spinnings Salman Agha and Khushdil Shah, who have achieved only a wickt between them in two games.
Pakistan also made a mistake by not selecting a regular starter and took the risky step to promote Babar Azam out of shape to the Zaman couple.
When Zaman was discarded, they brought to imam-ul-haq as a replacement. He did only 10 when Pakistan was crushed by the title of Indian favorites by six Wickts.
In a surprise movement, they included in the all -terrain of the Khushdil and Faheem Ashraf squads on the basis of their performances in the Bangladesh Twenty20 League.
Ashraf had not played a hate for two years and Khushdil for three.
The former Pakistan captain and television expert Rashid Latif described him as a “political selection”, blaming external influence.
Old -style cryket
The former Pakistan captain and popular all -terrain Shahid Afridi accused Pakistan of playing obsolete cryket.
“In 2025, Pakistan was playing Cricket style of the eighties and ninety years, while other teams had progressed well to adopt an aggressive and modern style,” he told AFP.
“The ailment of playing too many points of points also harms our game.” Pakistan played 152 knit balls against India by scoring 241 in 49.4 overs, including a 28 -ball without scores record in the first six overs.
Its total of 260 in 47.2 overs in the defeat against New Zealand had 162 knit balls.
“The mentality of Pakistan players does not match modern Cricket,” said Afridi.
“We need a complete review of the system so that we can produce players with an aggressive mentality. “
