World Cup 2023: Who’s to blame for Pakistan’s poor performance?

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Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been scrambling to live up to the expectations they sat for themselves.

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The former royals haven’t had anything big come up since the streaming platform terminated their deal in June.

It comes on the heels of a column from Daniela Elser in which she reflected on Harry and Meghan’s approaches toward pursuing their careers.

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“[Harry’s] prospects can entirely be summed up by that handy shrugging emoji.“

“His wife’s website might still be a yeti-worthy mystery but what exactly does the duke have going on?”

Aside from that, he also questioned the fitness of the players in the Pakistani team.

The loss of just two wickets is pretty embarrassing for someone who reaches 280-odd. Wet pitch or not, we should take a look at the fielding and fitness levels. For the past three weeks, we have been arguing that these players have not undergone a fitness test in the last two years. The faces of these guys will drop if I start naming them individually. It seems like they eat 8 kilograms of mutton every day. It seems that tests ought to be conducted.

According to Shoaib Malik, a former right-handed batter who was in the team at the time of the loss, captain Babar bears the bulk of the responsibility for this defeat.

According to him, Babar’s performance as a batsman is satisfactory, but his performance as a leader is not at the level he should be at.

During the panel discussion, former captain Moin Khan, who was also a member of the panel, said that Babar has been captain for over three years, but that he hasn’t shown any signs of gaining experience since then.

When they need to take a wicket, they do not bring in close-in fielders to take the wicket. I think you have to adopt such strategies, and we should have been bringing in close-in fielders when we were playing against Afghanistan,” he told me.

Former captain Misbah-ul Haq, who also expressed his views on the subject, blamed the team’s poor performance on flawed strategy.

Whenever Haris Rauf is given a powerplay over, it is evident that he is not confident and that in the first over he is giving 18 to 20 runs to the opposition.

I would suggest that you change your strategy if this happens in every match.

Following Malik’s interjection, he said that the spinning department is also having difficulties and is unable to deliver what is expected. There is Saud Shakeel who can bowl for you. Why don’t you give him the opportunity to do so.”

Afghanistan made history on Monday by defeating Pakistan for the first time in eight over-the-limit matches after edging out England in Delhi eight days earlier in a shock result.

The defeat leaves Pakistan’s World Cup campaign in a state of disarray, as they have suffered three defeats in five matches and have to take on a formidable South Africa side at the same venue on Friday.

However, Afghanistan’s campaign is somewhat revived with two wins in five matches, and they will face Sri Lanka at Pune on Sunday in their next match, which is expected to be a tough one.

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