Social media lambaste comeback duo Shehzad and Akmal

Ahmed Shehzad and Umar Akmal fail to justify their selection in the series. Akmal yet to score a run in the se
08 Oct, 2019
  • Ahmed Shehzad and Umar Akmal fail to justify their selection in the series.
  • Akmal yet to score a run in the series after back to back golden ducks.

Pakistani cricket fans aren't in the best of their moods and are rightly so after the national side suffered a 2-0 series defeat against Sri Lanka.

Slamming the cricket team's appalling show during the ongoing T20 series, fans vent their anger on social media, especially on the returning duo of Ahmed Shehzad and Umar Akmal that failed to justify their selection during the two matches.

Akmal has yet to score a run in the series, after the batsman suffered back to back golden ducks in the two matches, and now sits alongside Sri Lanka’s former batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan with 10 duck in T20I - the most by any player.

Shehzad too, despite not getting out on naughts, failed to impress with figures of 13 and 4 during the series.

The defeat in T20 series is not good for Pakistan in several ways, as not only it soured the homecoming of international cricket, the side also lost in a format dominated by Pakistan for the past three years and that too against the inexperienced Sri Lankan side, after some 10 players of their regular squad refused to tour Pakistan.

The timing of this defeat is crucial as well as it exposes our vulnerabilities in all departments of the game exactly a year before the 2020 ICC T20 World Cup.

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