The Pakistan girls’s crew collapsed like a home of playing cards on Monday whereas chasing a victory and a spot within the T20 World Cup semifinals, getting bowled out for simply 56 in opposition to New Zealand within the penultimate group match of the event.
After proscribing New Zealand to a manageable 110 for six, Pakistan first slipped to 28 for five after which crashed from 52 for six to 56 all out in 11.four overs in an effort to win rapidly to enhance their web run charge and safe a semifinal berth.
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Nonetheless, it is Australia and New Zealand who reached the semis from Group A, whereas India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka have been eradicated from the race.
The win upset former Pakistan gamers and cricket specialists, together with ex-batsman Basit Ali.
“It appeared like Pakistan have been enjoying badminton, not cricket,” mentioned the 53-year-old Basit. “Pakistan girls’s cricket chairperson is a badminton participant. Badminton ki participant cricket ki chairperson.”
Tania Mallick, the Head of Girls’s Cricket in Pakistan, is a former nationwide badminton champion.
“I have not seen such a crew. You might lose 10 out of 10 matches, however I have not seen a crew dropping catches like that,” mentioned Basit concerning the butter fingers of the Pakistan crew.
“Mashallah, 11-12 catches chhorey, straightforward. Dolly, dolly, dolly!” he mentioned in sarcastic tone in a video on his YouTube channel.
Basit praised Pakistan captain Fatima Sana who had misplaced her father just a few days in the past and went on to contribute essentially the most runs (21) in her crew’s embarrassing collapse.
Basit criticised the crew’s shot-selection and the drastic modifications within the batting order in an effort to attain rapidly to win on the earliest.
“Who received out on a superb ball? Muneeba (Ali) performed a cross-batted shot. They have been getting run-out, enjoying unhealthy photographs. Sana Fatima misplaced her father just lately; she performed the most effective knock,” he mentioned.
Extending his sarcasm to Pakistan males’s defeat within the first Take a look at in opposition to England regardless of scoring greater than 500 of their first innings, Basit mentioned that defeat probably shook the ladies’s crew additionally.
“I feel the way in which Pakistan misplaced the primary Take a look at, it shocked the ladies’s crew as properly and so they too could not play…We all know our crew is weak, everyone is aware of that. However to lose like that…56 all out in 11.four overs. It damage me, personally,” he mentioned.
“The way in which they modified the batting order, it was past me to understand.”
