Former cricketer Sourav Ganguly gave his insights on Pakistan’s prospects of profitable the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 after the facet’s complete defeat to arch-rivals India on Saturday.
Pakistan have been handed a seven-wicket hammering by the hands of India of their ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 fixture at Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium. The facet have been cruising at 155-2 on the finish of the thirtieth over with captain Babar Azam and wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan effectively settled on the crease.
Nevertheless, issues fell aside for Pakistan when pacer Mohammed Siraj took the wicket of the Pakistan skipper. The facet was dismissed for simply 191 in 42.5 overs.
India captain Rohit Sharma led the chase with a blistering 86, and the two-time champions finally romped house in 30.3 overs with seven wickets in hand to take care of their unbeaten document in opposition to Pakistan within the historical past of the event.
Sourav Ganguly, thought of to be one among India’s best batters and captains, believes it’s tough for Pakistan to make a comeback within the World Cup after such a defeat.
The previous batter, in a dialog with a cricketing web site, stated it’s not the Pakistan crew he was used to play. He lambasted them for the facet going through issues in coping with stress conditions.
“Throughout our time Pakistan was a distinct crew, this isn’t the kind of Pakistan crew we used to play,” he stated. “This crew can’t deal with the stress through the batting. It is going to be arduous for Pakistan to come back again on this World Cup with this batting.”
It’s pertinent to say that Pakistan are positioned at fourth place within the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 factors desk with 4 factors. They began their marketing campaign with an 81-run win over the Netherlands.
They went on to beat 1996 champions Sri Lanka within the following sport.
Babar Azam’s facet will now tackle five-time winners Australia of their fixture at Bangalore’s M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday.
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