Pakistan produced fairly an underwhelming efficiency in opposition to India within the Cricket World Cup 2023 match on Saturday noticed Babar Azam‘s males struggling a 7-wicket defeat. India produced a efficiency that actually mirrored their mindset and credentials to go all the way in which within the match. As Pakistan followers had been reflecting on their workforce’s embarrassing defeat, a gesture involving their skipper Babar and India’s Virat Kohli went viral on social media. Seeing Kohli hand a few Team India shirts to Babar, nonetheless, Pakistan legend Wasim Akram wasn’t happy.

In a chat on A-Sports, Akram criticised Babar for getting t-shirts from Kohli on the sphere, in entrance of cameras, with the visible being performed repeatedly on tv units throughout the globe. Akram mentioned that even when Babar needed to ask Kohli for shirts, it ought to’ve been performed away from the cameras, within the dressing room.

“That’s what I exactly said when I saw the picture [getting the shirts publicly, not privately],” Akram mentioned. “Today was not the day to do this. If you want to do it – (agar chache ke puttar ne keh diya hai ki t-shirt chahiye kohli ki) if your uncle’s son has asked you to get Kohli’s shirt – then do it after the game in the dressing room,” he mentioned.

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After the sport, Babar admitted that his workforce was removed from convincing within the match. While Pakistan’s goal was 280-290 runs, they may solely attain 191.

“We started well. Good partnership between me and Imam. We wanted to play normal cricket (me and Rizwan). Suddenly we had a collapse and didn’t finish well. The way we started, wanted to target 280-290. With the new ball we are not upto the mark. The way Rohit is playing – he played an outstanding innings,” ge mentioned after the match.

India captain Rohit Sharma, alternatively, took a swipe at Pakistan’s batters as he mentioned that it wasn’t a 190 pitch.

“The bowlers were the ones today as well who set the game up for us. I don’t think it was a 190 pitch. At one stage we were looking at 280. The way they showed grit says a lot. That is something we pride ourselves in. Whoever gets the ball does the job. We’ve got 6 individuals who can do the job with the ball. My job as a captain is important there as well. It’s to read the conditions and figure out who’s the right guy to do the job,” Rohit mentioned after the match.