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      <title>Wasim Akram blames players fitness for Afghanistan defeat</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Former captain of Pakistan Wasim Akram has criticised Pakistan’s cricket team’s performance following their &lt;a href="https://www.aajenglish.tv/news/30337968/world-cup-2023-history-created-as-afghanistan-beat-pakistan-for-first-time"&gt;defeat by Afghanistan&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;a href="https://www.aajenglish.tv/trends/world-cup-2023"&gt;World Cup 2023&lt;/a&gt; and highlighted concerns about the players’ fitness.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Legendary pacer, while analyzing the performance of Pakistan’s elevens in the show &lt;em&gt;‘The Pavilion’&lt;/em&gt; on Asports, revealed that no fitness criteria was being followed for two years, despite players gaining weight.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Fielding is all about fitness,” he said: “I am with Misbah he had that criteria when he was coach, players hated him but it’s worked.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“You have to perform because you are getting paid for this,” added Akram.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Talking about the potential future of the national cricket team in the ongoing tournament he said that maybe we would qualify in the quarter-final, That’s a big ‘maybe’, he said.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a id="management-of-officials-have-no-knowledge-about-cricket" href="#management-of-officials-have-no-knowledge-about-cricket" class="heading-permalink" aria-hidden="true" title="Permalink"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;‘Management of officials have no Knowledge about cricket’&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, Moin Khan also owned Wasim Akram’s words and added that there should be planning before the biggest tournament.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;He termed the tour of Sri Lanka, and the Asia Cup model—which was organized in Sri Lanka with the collaboration of Pakistan—made players lethargic.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Moin Khan said that these all belong to management and they don’t have any idea about cricket. “I don’t know from whom they take advice, but it is a big disaster.”&lt;/p&gt;
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      <content:encoded xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p><strong>Former captain of Pakistan Wasim Akram has criticised Pakistan’s cricket team’s performance following their <a href="https://www.aajenglish.tv/news/30337968/world-cup-2023-history-created-as-afghanistan-beat-pakistan-for-first-time">defeat by Afghanistan</a> in the <a href="https://www.aajenglish.tv/trends/world-cup-2023">World Cup 2023</a> and highlighted concerns about the players’ fitness.</strong></p>
<p>Legendary pacer, while analyzing the performance of Pakistan’s elevens in the show <em>‘The Pavilion’</em> on Asports, revealed that no fitness criteria was being followed for two years, despite players gaining weight.</p>
<p>“Fielding is all about fitness,” he said: “I am with Misbah he had that criteria when he was coach, players hated him but it’s worked.”</p>
<p>“You have to perform because you are getting paid for this,” added Akram.</p>
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<p>Talking about the potential future of the national cricket team in the ongoing tournament he said that maybe we would qualify in the quarter-final, That’s a big ‘maybe’, he said.</p>
<h2><a id="management-of-officials-have-no-knowledge-about-cricket" href="#management-of-officials-have-no-knowledge-about-cricket" class="heading-permalink" aria-hidden="true" title="Permalink"></a>‘Management of officials have no Knowledge about cricket’</h2>
<p>However, Moin Khan also owned Wasim Akram’s words and added that there should be planning before the biggest tournament.</p>
<p>He termed the tour of Sri Lanka, and the Asia Cup model—which was organized in Sri Lanka with the collaboration of Pakistan—made players lethargic.</p>
<p>Moin Khan said that these all belong to management and they don’t have any idea about cricket. “I don’t know from whom they take advice, but it is a big disaster.”</p>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 19:46:32 +0500</pubDate>
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