Pakistan Test cricketer Ahmed Shehzad expressed his disappointment over the national men’s team’s performance in the ongoing two-match home Test series against Bangladesh.
Bangladesh pacers wreaked havoc in the first session of the recently concluded Day 4 of the second Test, taking four key wickets to leave Pakistan reeling at 117-6 at Lunch.
Wicketkeeper batter Mohammad Rizwan and all-rounder Salman Ali Agha offered some resilience with their gutsy 43 and 47 knocks before the home side was booked on a modest total of 172, setting Bangladesh a 185-run target to claim their first-ever clean sweep victory over Pakistan in Tests.
Reacting to Pakistan’s collapse in the second innings, Ahmed Shehzad, in a video posted on X, formerly Twitter, slammed Pakistan for letting Bangladesh make a plethora of records in the ongoing series.
“Pakistan have made another unwanted record against Bangladesh. It seems like Bangladesh cricket team has come only to make records,” Shehzad stated.
“Pakistan bowlers did well to dismiss six Bangladesh batsmen for just 26 runs, but after that, you let a 150-run stand flourish. And this has happened for the first time in history that a team had taken 6 wickets inside 30 runs and then see a 150-run stand for the seventh wicket take the match away,” he added.
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Ahmed Shehzad lauded pacers Khurram Shahzad and Mir Hamza for their fiery opening spells against Bangladesh, which had reduced the touring side to 26/6.
“At a time it was looking that things are under your control. These youngsters (Mir Hamza and Khurram Shahzad) who had toiled hard in domestic cricket and hadn’t come from Mohenjo-Daro, had been waiting for their chances for a long time and today they got an opportunity because some senior bowler was missing and they both delivered for you. Khurram Shahzad bowled well today, hitting the weak areas of the Bangladesh batsmen, exposing their weak techniques and dismissing them,” said Shehzad.
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