As India registered a big win over Afghanistan in their group clash of ICC Men’s World Cup T20 2021 on Wednesday (November 3), some Pakistani fans started a trend on Twitter claiming that the match between India and Afghanistan was fixed or not?

Pakistani Twitter users said that match was fixed and Afghanistan deliberately bowled badly and the fielders also dropped a few easy catches to help India win the game.

One of the Twitter users wrote, “It is so sad to see a country that fought with so much vigour and passion throughout the tournament to sell out to the bigger team and let them win at the highest stage of cricket. Sad to see India ruin the beauty of the gentleman’s sport.”

However, legendary Pakistani bowlers Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis have rejected the match-fixing claims, saying that such claims should be ignored. 

Akram called the whole discussion ‘pointless’ and added that he failed to understand why and how these conspiracy theories are born in Pakistan.

He told A Sports, “I don’t know why we like to create such conspiracy theories? India are a very good team. They just had couple of bad days at the start of the tournament.”

Waqar also echoed similar feelings and said, “It’s a pointless thing to say and people should not give it much attention.”

India defeated Afghanistan by 66 runs on Wednesday to improve their NRR in the competition and remain in the hunt for a place in the semifinals.

India now need to win the remaining two games by big margins and hope other results fall in their favour as well. India is set to clash against Scotland on November 5.