Pakistan’s marketing campaign within the 2023 World Cup confronted a giant setback on Thursday when New Zealand registered a five-wicket win over Sri Lanka in Bengaluru. Babar Azam’s males relied closely on a Sri Lankan win to maintain their possibilities for a semi-final berth alive; it’s not as if they’ll now not qualify for a similar, however the activity for Pakistan of their closing group match towards England turned all of the extra daunting with a win for the Kiwis. Babar and co. now have to beat England by not less than 287 runs to safe a berth within the knock-out phases.
Whereas the end result is not unattainable, it’s definitely troublesome to attain and plenty of former cricketers have already accepted an India-New Zealand semi-final subsequent week. Former India opener Virender Sehwag is one among them, as he took a dig at Pakistan on Friday after their semi-final hopes took a success. He put out a controversial ‘Pakistan Zindabhaag’ tweet, implying that the aspect will fly again house after its final group match towards England.
The tweet triggered important reactions from Pakistan and shortly sufficient, followers from each side of the border started to argue. In a single such tweet, a Pakistan fan acknowledged that their bowlers had troubled Sehwag on a number of events, to which an Indian replied that the previous India opener has a median of practically 91 towards Pakistan.
Sehwag, then, quoted the tweet by the India fan and took an enormous dig at Pakistan’s bowling assault, stating that the aspect’s bowling put up Wasim Akram’s retirement wasn’t ok for him.
“Nahi yaar, Wasim bhai ke retirement ke baad jaise yeh thhey , 200 ki avg honi chahiye tha inke saath. However jo bhi ho , tab bhi aur ab bhi Inke Mazzey lene mein maza aata hai . (No, man. After Wasim bhai’s retirement, the best way their bowling assault was, I ought to have had a median of 200. Anyway, it was enjoyable towards them then, and even now),” Sehwag wrote.
Pakistan’s final group match towards England takes place on Saturday, whereas Australia can even meet Bangladesh of their closing group sport in Pune. India, who’ve already certified for the semis, will tackle Netherlands of their final group stage sport on Sunday.