Zimbabwe defeated Pakistan on Thursday. In this match, Pakistan needed 131 runs to win but the Pakistani team was able to score only 129 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. Former Indian cricketer Lalchand Rajput is grabbing a lot of headlines after this Zimbabwe victory over Pakistan. Actually, former cricketer and manager Lalchand Rajput is the former head coach and current technical director of the Zimbabwe cricket team. Previously, he had been the coach of the team that won the T20 World Cup in 2007.
Indeed, Zimbabwe has performed brilliantly internationally in recent years. Now the Lalchand Rajput has spoken out about this performance by Zimbabwe. He said that he has been working with Zimbabwe for the last three or four years. Now this team has improved. He also said that when he joined this team in the year 2018, at that time this team was not very good, but now it has improved with time. Lalchand Rajput further says that when I was appointed coach of the team, the team failed to reach the ODI World Cup 2019, my goal was for us to focus on qualifying first. We continue our work even during the Corona period.
It is worth noting that in the year 2007, the Indian team won the T20 World Cup, Lalchand Rajput was a part of that team as a coach. Lalchand Rajput says that the experience of working with the Indian team at that time has been useful. We prepare the team players in the same way, but we have to give our one hundred percent to the players on the pitch. We can improve the team mentally and we can make plans against the opposing team, which helps the team. Significantly, in a very exciting match on Thursday, Zimbabwe pulled off a huge upset by defeating Pakistan by 1 run. At the same time, following this loss, Pakistan’s hopes of reaching the semi-finals have suffered a major setback.