Pakistan cricketer Iftikhar Ahmed was brutally trolled by the cricket fans after the white ball specialist said that at times he 'felt like a tailender' when the team management asked him to bat on numbers 7 and 8.
Iftikhar is currently involved in Pakistan's domestic White ball tournament Champions Cup 2024 where he will represent Mohammad Rizwan-led Wolves. In an interaction with the media in Faisalabad where players have assembled for the Champions Cup tournament, Iftikhar said he didn't consider himself a middle-order batter.
“I am not a middle-order batter, I am a lower-order batter. I am not an all-rounder, I am a tailender. If you see, I bat at No.7 or 8. And if you look at the all-rounders and middle order batters around the world, you would see they bat at Nos 4 or 5. But I play at No.7 and 8 and I think of myself as a tailender," he said.
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Iftikhar, 34, who has played 4 Tests, 28 ODIs and 66 T20Is did face a disappointing run in recent internationals and also struggled in the World T20 Cup this year.
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Across his T20I career, Iftikhar in his 55 innings has batted 25 times at No. 5, 11 times at No.7 and 10 times at No.6.
In ODIs, Iftikhar out of 24 knocks, has batted 16 times at number 6. Iftikhar also said that he was keen to leave a mark in the Champions Cup as he believed he still had a lot to offer to the national team.
He said the Pakistan team had some quality players and was confident the team would soon bounce back in the white ball format matches coming up this year and before the ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan.
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