At the Asia Cup last Thursday, Sri Lanka defeated Pakistan in the Super 4 tournament to book a place in the final. Pakistan suffered a two-wicket defeat against Sri Lanka under DLS. With this defeat, Pakistan’s dream of reaching the Asia Cup final shattered. The news came from the locker room that there had been arguments between the team players. In fact, there was a discussion in the dressing room between team captain Babar Azam and Shaheen Afridi and to calm things down, Rizwan had to intervene.
According to a report by Bol News, Pakistan captain Babar Azam called the players to the dressing room after the loss against Sri Lanka. Babar was talking to the players about their poor performance but the team’s fast bowler Shaheen Afridi interrupted him and said that at least the players who performed well should be appreciated. Babar didn’t like Shaheen’s thing at all. The Pakistan captain said he knew who performed well.
The conversation between Shaheen and Babar escalated so much that the team’s wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan had to come between them to resolve the issue. Let us tell you that Babar had told the players in the dressing room that they were not playing responsibly. Shaheen Afridi had stopped on this very matter.
We tell you that Pakistan remained bottom i.e. fourth in the Super 4 table of the tournament. The team won the first Super 4 game against Bangladesh and then lost both games in a row. Pakistan lost the second match against India by 228 runs. After that, the team suffered a 2-wicket defeat against Sri Lanka using the DLS method.