ISLAMABAD – Two Top Pakistani players break silence over World Cupperformance by national team.
Pakistan’s opening batsman Imam-ul-Haq and middle-order batsman Babar Azamgot a fair chance to learn a lot while playing in the World Cup for thefirst time.
“It was my first playing in such pressure I think I did pretty well anddelivered on the right time for my team,” Babar said while talking to themedia in Lahore following their return from London.
“See we are in a learning process and as a cricketer, you never stopgrabbing things. This World Cup was a unique experience for me and Ilearned a lot while playing a tough situation,” said Imam.
The left-handed batsman Imam-ul-Haq said that his role is to play 50 oversand no player wants to give poor performance. “See, 100 against Bangladeshwas tough as the situation was not ideal to score runs. I agree that Ifailed to get off the mark in the initial stage of the tournament but it isnot over for me and I will keep on giving my best,” he said.
Imam believes in his abilities and wants to remain honest with his duties.The nephew of chief selector Inzam-ul-Haq once again highlighted that he isin the team on merit.
“I believe in Allah and will give my best every time. If you talk aboutremoving chief selector so, in my opinion, it wouldn’t affect ourperformance anyway,” he said.
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Babar Azam, on the other hand, is happy to surpass Pakistan’s legendarybatsman Javed Miandad for scoring highest runs in a single edition of Men’sCricket World Cup. Babar scored 474 from Pakistan to break Miandad’s recordof scoring 424 runs in 1992 World Cup.
“As a batsman, its a great achievement for me. Standing strong in the listof best batsmen in the world is such a pleasure for me,” he said.
Babar put weight on Pakistan’s World Cup performance and speaks out againstcritics for doing unnecessary criticism only when the team loses. “We as aunit are satisfied with our performance. Our last few matches were theturning point for the team and the loss against India was equallydisappointing for us,” teh star batsman said.
To a query about change in the team’s captaincy, Babar said that it’s up tothe Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and they will decide such things.
