Islamabad
\nFormer Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja has slammed Babar Azam and Co. for lacking game awareness as they post a 271-run target against South Africa in the 26th game of the ICC Men\u2019s ODI World Cup 2023.
\nEx-PCB Chairman is of the opinion that Pakistan tailenders were mindless and they didn\u2019t know that they had to play complete 50 overs.
\nPakistan were bowled out for 46.4 overs and didn\u2019t play the quota of 50 overs. \u201cWickets went down and the tailenders have been absolutely mindless of the fact that they need to play out 50 overs,\u201d Ramiz said.
\n\u201cNawaz trying a strike when it was not on and that has been the story of Pakistan in this World Cup – not good enough game-awareness,\u201d he added.
\nRegarding Pakistan\u2019s innings, they lost their openers \u2013 Abdullah Shafique (9) and Imamul Haq (12) \u2013 for cheap scores as Marco Jansen struck twice to bring the team under pressure.
\nSkipper Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan tried to build a partnership in order to boost the total but Gerald Coetzee dismissed the latter for 31. The Pakistan captain was removed for 50 and Iftikhar Ahmed fell for 21 by Tabraiz Shamsi.
\nSaud Shakeel (52) and Shadab Khan (43) took the aggressive route and put scores on the board with fiery boundaries. After their removal, Mohammad Nawaz tried to keep up the momentum so a reasonable total could be built against the Proteas. However, he pulled poorly on Jansen\u2019s delivery and was caught on the off side.
\nPakistan won the toss and elected to bat first against South Africa in the ICC World Cup 2023 fixture today at MA Chidambaram Stadium.
\nPakistan made two changes to the team. Nawaz and Wasim Jnr came to the side in place of Hasan Ali and Usama Mir.
\nWith three consecutive defeats, Pakistan are eager to roar back into the competition when they play South Africa in their sixth match of the mega event.
\nThe Green Shirts started the World Cup campaign with wins over the Netherlands and Sri Lanka in Hyderabad, but since have faced three successive defeats.
\nIn their last match, Afghanistan shocked Pakistan by eight wickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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