New Delhi. Pakistan opener Abdullah Shafiq has expressed disappointment that his team could not win despite a good start against Australia. He needs to work on this before the next World Cup match. Australia gave Pakistan a target of 368 runs. Shafiq (64) and Imam-ul-Haq (70) put on 134 runs for the first wicket to give the team a good start. In this match played on Friday, the Pakistan team was bowled out for 305 runs. David Warner and Mitchell Marsh scored centuries for the Kangaroo team. Earlier, Shafiq scored a century against Sri Lanka and the team also got a huge target of 345 runs.
Abdullah Shafiq talking to the media after the match said, Australia played a great game. We have to accept this. We also tried our best. Our bowlers bowled well. He said that our batting was also good, but we did not perform well in the middle overs. We should have finished the match successfully. We have to work on this. Hopefully, we will learn from this match and perform better in the next matches. It is known that Pakistan’s middle order batting is dependent on Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan, but in the match Babar scored 18 runs while Rizwan scored 46 runs.
Such matches have been won earlier too
Abdullah Shafiq said that the target of 368 runs could have been achieved on the batting friendly pitch of M Chinnaswamy Stadium. He said that we have achieved such a big target before. Like the last match against Sri Lanka, we achieved a target of 345 runs. We have full confidence in our batting. But he bowled well and his fielding was also good.
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This is Pakistan’s second consecutive defeat in 4 matches. Before this, he also had to face defeat against Team India by 7 wickets. The team has moved to number 5 in the points table. Pakistan is scheduled to play its next match against Afghanistan on October 23 in Chennai. Afghanistan’s team has already created an upset by defeating England. In such a situation, once again his spin bowlers will test the Pakistani batsmen.
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Tags: Australia, Babar Azam, World Cup 2023
First published: October 21, 2023, 15:19 IST