Two weeks earlier than India and Pakistan face off within the T20 World Cup on the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) president Ramiz Raja made a giant assertion earlier than the arch-rivals on 23 October.
Raja stated the credit score ought to be given to the Babar Azam-led aspect, who thrashed the $1 billion Indian cricket staff within the final T20 World Cup and gave them the lead on this 12 months’s event.
Speaking on a Dawn information present, “King said:”Skill aur expertise se zyada psychological match hota hain yeh. So agar aap temperamentally robust he and mentally focussed he aur haar manne ko taiyar nahi hain toh chhoti staff bhi badi staff ko hara sakti hain. (India vs Pakistan is extra psychological than ability and expertise. If you might be mentally targeted and never prepared to surrender, even a small staff can beat a giant staff).
,Pakistan humesha se underdogs rahein hain jab bhi India se muqabla huye hain, however of late, unhone hume respect dena shuru kardiya hain kyunki unke khayal me yeh hain ki Pakistan hume kabhi hara hello nehi sakte. (Pakistan has at all times been the underdog whereas dealing with India, however just lately, they’ve began respecting us as they used to assume that they will by no means lose to Pakistan),” stated Raja.
,So yehi important kehta hu ki Pakistan ko credit score dijiye kyunki ek billion-dollar staff cricket trade ko hum harate he. (We should give credit score to this Pakistan staff as they’ve defeated a billion greenback cricket staff).
“I’ve performed the World Cup myself, we are able to solely beat India. (I’ve performed within the World Cup, however we’ve by no means been capable of beat India.)
,Iss staff ko credit score dena chaiye kyunki restricted sources, in comparison with India, se put together karte he and tagda muqabla karte hain (We ought to give credit score to this staff as they offer them good competitors regardless of having restricted sources as in comparison with India,” he stated.
The PCB chief has additionally given an replace on left-arm pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi, who’s present process rehab in England.
“I spoke to Shaheen a day again. “I haven’t felt this fit in a while,” he stated. So, progress is nice. His physician despatched me his movies. He feels that he’ll play towards India and can be able to combat.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
