Pakistan has not done well in the current T20 WC, and some issues are cropping up within the playing team.
Their performance in this year’s competition was extremely poor, especially the Babar Azam-led side, which managed to progress to the third place of their group after they only won two games out of the four that they played, reaching the knockout stage and this draw lots of criticism from the citizens and former players.
Saying it out, Hafeez, a veteran all-rounder and the captain of the side, who worked as a director of the team and also as an interim head coach in the past, called out the players on an incident where a number of them were found sleeping in the dressing room during a Test match.
The latest skills were stated by the Pakistan team’s bowling mainstay Abdul Razzaq, who asked Hafeez, saying,
“If a player is sleeping in the dressing room while we are playing Test cricket, should I allow that as a team director?”
Sophistoring this further, Hafeez said that he saw 4 to 5 players asleep in the dressing room and did not consider such an attitude appropriate for a professional side.
Pakistan’s plans and playing style have often been criticized in the past 2-3 years, and the team also changed the captain before the T20 World Cup this year; Babar Azam replaced Shaheen Shah Afridi as captain.
Their campaign was shaped by their initial defeat to co-hosts USA in the group stage, which went to a Super Over and a defeat that would not only be yet another blip in the team’s tournament journey but would also come back to haunt them when they could only manage to finish third in the group.
While Pakistan’s fans had to go over the issue slowly and again after the team’s poor show in the recent series, the revelations that Hafeez made have added more to the woes of the team management for not addressing the problem within the team.
