What went wrong for Pakistan in T20 World Cup 2024?
What went wrong for Pakistan in T20 World Cup 2024: Pakistan faced a group stage exit from the ongoing T20 World Cup 2024 after their irresponsible performance and there are a lot of rumours circulating that the team is divided into three groups, which is the major reason behind their disastrous result.
However, it is still unclear about inner groupings, but we have seen on field during the games, we may draw conclusions and analyse the possible reasons for what went wrong for Pakistan.
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The openers hurdle
Despite playing enough T20 cricket in the last couple of months, Pakistan failed to recognize their best opening combination for the marquee event that hurt the team balance during the games.
Middle order muddle
Azam Khan’s inclusion in the squad raised a lot of questions after the announcement of tge sqyad and his performance during the marquee event further added fuel to the fire. While Fakhar Zaman and Shadab Khan also disappointed with the bat.
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Finisher?
The biggest question is which the team is answerable for, who is their specialist finisher? Pakistan lost the game from a stage where they required only 40 runs in 35 balls with 6 wickets in hand against India. Iftikhar Ahmed and Imad Wasim, both known as their best hitters failed to provide team the much-needed support.
Best bowling line-up tag
Pakistan’s bowling line-up has been tagged as the best bowling department in the world, but there nothing best in their attack, as they failed to defend a target of 160, gave away 18 runs in a super over. They did a decent bowling against India on a bowler’s friendly pitch, but Pakistan lost that match also.
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Pakistan reached the semifinals in 2021 and played the finale in 2022 T20 World Cup and also started as one of the favourites to win this year’s World Cup. But their crumbling performance has eliminated the side from the first round of the tournament itself.