‘Yeh tho kadwa saach bol raha hai’ -Fans react after Mohammad Asif makes controversial comments on Agha Salman and Babar Azam

Pakistan recently announced their World Cup squad just before the start of the tournament in India. Hasan Ali was called back into the setup and Faheem Ashraf was considered. Babar Azam will lead the side. Shadab Khan also retains his vice-captaincy amidst reports of him losing the post. On another note, Mohammad Hafeez left Pakistan’s technical committee just ahead of the World Cup. This could mean the signs are not good for Pakistan Cricket.

Mohammad Asif meanwhile is making the headlines again. The former Pakistan speedster made some controversial statements about Babar Azam and Salman Agha which cooked up a storm on social media. “I can bowl a maiden over to Babar Azam in T20 cricket even today, he cannot hit the ball if you bowl good deliveries to him’ Asif wrote in a tweet about Babar. ‘I don’t consider Agha Salman as a player, he’s a waste of time. Even I can score the number of runs he scores. He only scores when Pakistan has already scored a lot of runs as a team”, Asif said about Salman.

This left fans in a tizzy as there were a lot of comments on the matter on social media. A few fans said that this is not the time to spread negativity and hate ahead of the big tournament. The technical committee of Pakistan sat along with the coaching staff of Pakistan and in that meeting, it was said that the coaches were reluctant to bring in any changes in terms of their coaching style and they were happy with the methods that they were going with.

Pakistan lost to Sri Lanka in the semi-finals of the recently concluded Asia Cup

The Men in Green have been playing continuous cricket for a long time as they played an ODI series against New Zealand at home. Then they played a Test series against Sri Lanka. After that, a lot of Pakistan’s big-name players played in the Lanka Premier League (LPL). Post which they played a three-match ODI series against Afghanistan before heading into the Asia Cup. A lot of players had burnouts.

In the Asia Cup, it was a campaign to forget as the Men in Green crashed out after a record 228-run loss to India. Following this they were defeated by Sri Lanka in a two-wicket thriller. This meant they were out of the multilateral tournament. Naseem Shah was also omitted from the World Cup squad due to injury.

Let us take a look at the reactions on Twitter:

How much spot fixing money he is left with?😂😂

— Muhammad Usman (@usmantufail31) September 23, 2023

Yes he’s right, Babaz Azam has to learn alot how to deal with pressure situations.

— Engr Hamza (@EngrHamza102) September 23, 2023

Babar Azam be like:

Kya karu main mar jau pic.twitter.com/p7kfYLfBBA

— 💙శశాంక్•शशांक💙 (@sasanknv) September 23, 2023

Sach hi toh kaha he.chhoti team,highways,b teams ko mar kr hi lumber 1 bna he.real match winner in pak team are naseem,ifti chachu and shadab..baki ye zimba aur rizwan toh abhi expose hona start hua he against quality teams and in tough conditions

— akshay10 (@akshay102044352) September 23, 2023

Jab bowl swing hoga to Mera nhi khayal Kay koi bhi aaj Ka batsman usse ko hit kar sake….
Who they hit the ball are 90s 20s batsmans… Name are… Sachin , minadad , Lara , Richards etc…

— S L A Y E R 👿 (@BaD_4UloL) September 23, 2023

Even I don’t consider Salman Agha as a cricketer. Riyan Parag>>>>Salman Agha

— Rishi (@Jyotish79696386) September 23, 2023

Disrespect of any player!
Even if agha is not playing well,Asif shouldn’t speak in such a way.

— Ali akbar (@Aliakba45653680) September 23, 2023

True: he comes on the crease just to set his gloves after every single delivery…

if anyone didn’t notice, try next time when he is there.

— HUSSAIN (@HUSSAIN_IUB) September 22, 2023

So far he has played unnecessary sweeps and thrown away his wicket without understanding the responsibilities in a game… I don’t think hez a genuine batter.

— SS (@SSuhail1123) September 23, 2023

Yes he is a mug player against spin.
He is not picking googlies and doesn’t know whether to go back or play in front, if you watch him AsiaCup you can see him clearly struggling against spin.

Any good spinner will eat him for Breakfast Lunch & Dinner.

— 💙శశాంక్•शशांक💙 (@sasanknv) September 23, 2023