Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar slammed the country’s cricket board and the current men’s senior team after they lost the third O...
Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar slammed the country’s cricket board and the current men’s senior team after they lost the third One-Day International against England on Tuesday to suffer a clean sweep in the series.
James Vince hit a first ODI century and Lewis Gregory made 77 as a new-look England beat Pakistan by three wickets at Edgbaston on Tuesday to complete a remarkable 3-0 series clean sweep.
“It’s a shameful performance. Our board is average. It brings average people, the management is average so obviously, they are going to build an average team. You can’t expect extraordinary things from average people. It’s wrong for you to expect,” Akhtar said on his YouTube channel.
“Crowd are coming to the ground but after watching such performances, the fan-following will never grow. There is no star to inspire the youngsters. Then how can you bring the next Shoaib Akhtar, Shahid Afridi or Wasim Akram? You have to a build brand,” he added.
Set a challenging 332 to win, 50-over world champions England, without most of their first-choice players because of a pre-series Covid outbreak, were faltering at 165/5. But a stand of 129 between Vince, who made 102, and Gregory turned the tide.
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