Ramiz Raja: Although Pakistan and India don’t frequently compete against each other on the international stage, comparisons between the players of the two teams and their performances frequently keep fans interested on social media. Ramiz Raja, the head of Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), emphasised the different scales on which Pakistan and their arch-rival India are assessed as fans cranked the heat up on Pakistan following their failures in the Asia Cup 2022 and the T20I series against England.
Babar Azam got a century in the Asia Cup match against Afghanistan, similar to how Virat Kohli did. Ramiz Raja did draw attention to the disparity in the attitudes of the two fan bases, though. When Babar scored 110 against England in the recently finished series, questions about his poor strike rate persisted even as India celebrated Kohli’s 71st international century.
“Previously we used to falter at the very first hurdle. Yes we reached the final and yes we did not play well. But it’s okay to have a bad day. But there were others teams as well in the Asia Cup. I mean then India should then have been severely criticised for not reaching the final. But that is not what their fans and media do.
“I’ll tell you, when Virat Kohli scored a century against Afghanistan, they forgot their entire Asia Cup. Will we ever do that? What we say is that Babar Azam scored a ton, but his strike rate was 135 while David Warner’s was 147.3. So this is useless,” Ramiz Raja was quoted saying.
Even though they advanced to the semifinals of the T20 World Cup last year, Pakistan’s form hasn’t been great heading into the 2022 tournament.
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