Babar Azam on defeat against Afghanistan
Babar Azam on defeat vs Afghanistan in WC 2023: Afghanistan, who created a sensation by defeating defending champions England, continued their impressive run and kept their hopes alive in the ICC ODI World Cup by pulling off another eight-wicket upset of another title contender Pakistan here on Monday. This is Afghanistan’s first win against Pakistan in ODI cricket. With this, he has four points in five matches. Pakistan also have the same number of points but their third straight defeat has dealt a blow to their chances of reaching the semi-finals.
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Babar Azam said after the defeat
“It hurt us. Our total was good. We didn’t bowl well because we couldn’t take wickets in the middle overs. If you’re not good at even one part, you lose the game. We didn’t stop. Hitting boundaries and gave away runs, which cost us the result. We started well bowling, we needed wickets in the middle overs but we couldn’t get any wickets.”
“Full credit goes to Afghanistan for the way they played in all three departments. That’s why they won. We are not playing good cricket in bowling and fielding. We will try our best in the next match. We played length in the middle overs. But the ball was not bowling, Especially our spinners, we couldn’t put pressure on the batsmen.”
Afghanistan beat Pakistan by 8 wickets in ICC ODI World Cup match. Batting first, Pakistan scored 282 runs for 7 wickets. Afghanistan won by scoring 286 runs for two wickets in 49 overs.