Wasim Akram takes a dig at the Pakistan team after their early exit from T20 World Cup

HomeSports NewsWasim Akram takes a dig at the Pakistan team after their early exit from T20 World Cup

Pakistan’s elimination was confirmed on Friday when debutants USA joined arch-rivals India as the second team from Group A in the Super Eight round, following a washout at Lauderhill in Florida.

By Anjali Jha  June 15, 2024, 11:15:51 PM IST (Published)

Due to weather conditions, the match between the United States and Ireland got washed out which resulted in Pakistan getting eliminated from the T20 World Cup. Pakistan’s elimination was confirmed on Friday when debutants USA joined arch-rivals India as the second team from Group A in the Super Eight round, following a washout at Lauderhill in Florida.

Pakistan went down to India in New York on Sunday in a close game, failing to chase a target of 120. Before that, in their opening game in Dallas, they suffered a shock Super Over loss to the USA.

The back-to-back defeats meant Pakistan’s chances of advancing to the Super Eight were already out of their own hands. It is yet another global tournament where the unpredictable Pakistanis again left it too late.

“Yeah. And congratulations to Team USA. They’ve done amazingly well when you talk about globalisation of the game. This is it USA qualifying for Super Eights. They deserve to be there. They had beaten Pakistan in the round match. So they are there. For Pakistan was the plan EK 601 to Dubai and then to the respective cities. And then we see what happens from there onwards,” Wasim Akram said in a video posted by the ICC on their social media handle.

Pakistan Cricket Board will enforce its two-NOCs policy for T20 leagues strictly following the national team’s embarrassing performance and first-round exit in the T20 World Cup in the Americas. All players, who sign central and domestic contracts in Pakistan cricket, have to adhere to a clause that states that a player can only be issued an NOC for a maximum of two overseas leagues besides playing in the Pakistan Super League in a year.

The board has yet not issued any NOCs to youngsters Azam Khan and Saim Ayub to play in the Caribbean Premier League even though both were retained by their respective teams for this season. Both Azam and Saim are part of Pakistan’s World Cup squad. “The other players have also been given a clear message that the two NOC’s rule applies to both centrally and domestic contracted players and the board also reserves the right to turn down any NOC request from any player,” an official source in the board said.

(With PTI inputs)

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