Babar Azam-led Pakistan cricket team are facing a lot of criticism for their poor outing in the ongoing T20 World Cup 2024. Men in Green are out of the tournament after their ordinary performance. Recently, a fan from Pakistan claimed that the captain has fixed matches in the marquee event and that forced them to get out of the World Cup.
Soon after the match-fixing allegations former Pakistan captain Rashid Latif slammed the cricket board for silently spectating the criticism of the team after the World Cup exit.
"Pakistan's exclusion from the World Cup has caused the biggest loss to our electronic media, which includes news channels and sports broadcasters (broadcasting rights). Those who have the broadcast rights to show the match are expected to lose 30% to 35%. The ratings of the channels are also surprisingly low as the Pakistan team is back home and the news channels and sports channels are blaming the players and the team to keep themselves alive and the cricket board is a silent spectator. While in Haris Rauf's case, Chairman PCB's X message came immediately, but where a serious allegation like match-fixing was made, the entire legal department is silent and coincidentally, PCB's CEO is a lawyer by profession. People are understanding that maybe it did not change the direction of the cannons to save itself?," Latif wrote in a post on X.
Pakistan's performance in the T20 World Cup 2024
Pakistan lost their T20 World Cup 2024 opener clash against the co-hosts United States by five runs in a Super Over clash and after that, arch-rivals India defeated them by six runs in a nail-biter clash at Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York. They got out of the tournament after the last group clash between the USA and Ireland washed out due to consistent rain in Florida. Pakistan faced Ireland for their last clash of the tournament where Babar Azam-led side registered their first win of the marquee event.
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