Former England captain Kevin Pietersen has expressed his issues over the state of Pakistan cricket. His feedback have come after Pakistan’s humiliating defeat towards Bangladesh within the Rawalpindi Take a look at.
Bangladesh inflicted a humiliating 10-wicket defeat on Pakistan to take an unassailable lead within the two-match sequence. It’s Bangladesh’s first-ever win over Pakistan within the longest format of the sport. Earlier than the win in Rawalpindi, Bangladesh had performed 13 Checks towards Pakistan and misplaced 12 of them whereas drawing the opposite one.
Draw regarded like probably the most believable end result after the tip of the fourth day in Rawalpindi. With Bangladesh ending their first innings late on day 4, not many had been anticipating any crew to win the sport. Nonetheless, an inexplicable collapse from Pakistan on day 5 noticed Bangladesh register the historic win.
Beginning the ultimate day on 23 for 1, Pakistan misplaced as many as 5 wickets within the very first session. In the long run, they had been bowled out for simply 146 runs. Set a goal of 30 runs, Bangladesh chased down the whole in lower than 7 overs with out dropping any wickets.
Earlier within the recreation, Pakistan had declared their first innings on 448/6 with Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel scoring centuries. In reply, Bangladesh rode on Mushfiqur Rahim’s 191-run knock to publish an enormous whole of 565 runs.
Kevin Pietersen on Pakistan’s shock defeat:
With Pakistan struggling one more shock defeat, Kevin Pietersen took to X (previously Twitter) to precise his shock over the state of cricket within the nation. Kevin Pietersen additionally recalled how the usual of Pakistan cricket was ‘large’ when he was enjoying within the PSL.
“What occurred to cricket in Pakistan? Once I performed the PSL, the usual of that league was large, the gamers had an excellent work ethic and the children on show had been magic. What’s taking place there?” wrote Kevin Pietersen
What occurred to cricket in Pakistan? Once I performed the PSL, the usual of that league was large, the gamers had an excellent work ethic and the children on show had been magic.
What’s taking place there?
— Kevin Pietersen🦏 (@KP24) August 26, 2024
2024 goes from unhealthy to worse for Pakistan:
The most recent defeat has solely worsened the scenario for Pakistan in current months. Issues have solely gone downhill for them within the final one yr or so.
All of it started in September final yr after they did not qualify for the ultimate of the Asia Cup. It was adopted by a league-stage exit within the ODI World Cup earlier than Babar Azam stepped down because the captain throughout codecs.
He was changed by Shaheen Afridi and Shan Masood because the T20I and Take a look at captain respectively. Nonetheless, the change in captaincy didn’t change Pakistan’s fortunes as they misplaced a Take a look at sequence in Australia and the T20I sequence in New Zealand.
Earlier this yr, Babar was reinstated because the T20I captain forward of the T20 World Cup however the transfer didn’t repay. Pakistan suffered a shock loss towards minnows USA in addition to eventual winners India and bowed out of the competitors on the group stage.
