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Pakistan cricket workforce in Champions Trophy 2025.© AFP
Pakistan tempo sensation Naseem Shah expressed his dissapointment concerning the defending champions’ flimsy begin within the Champions Trophy and emphasised the necessity to repair their errors earlier than heading to Dubai for the blockbuster conflict towards arch-rival India on Sunday. Pakistan needed to wait almost three many years for a world event to return to Pakistan. However New Zealand spoiled the occasion for the co-hosts by handing them an imposing 60-run defeat within the event opener in Karachi. In a brief event, the place every workforce performs three group-stage matches, a defeat within the opener has jeopardised their possibilities of punching their option to the semi-finals.
Within the context of the semi-finals, the 60-run defeat has made Pakistan’s high-stakes affair with India far more important than it did earlier than the event kicked off.
Naseem admitted that Pakistan must rectify its previous errors earlier than taking over the final word problem in Dubai on Sunday.
The ultimate 10 overs of the primary inning was de ja vu for Pakistan, with Glenn Phillips being the basis trigger behind their desolation. Along with his quick-fire 61, Phillips illuminated Karachi’s sky together with his fireworks as Pakistan spilt 113 runs within the final 60 balls.
Naseem admitted that the climax of the primary inning did not go as that they had deliberate and mentioned, “The last six to eight overs didn’t go the way we wanted them to. We need to look at how we can improve in those areas in the next matches.”
With Karachi’s dry strip staying true to its nature and providing a heavenly floor to the batters, the duty of bowlers to maintain a lid on the scoring price turns into far more difficult.
“On pitches like these, bowlers don’t get much help. Big scores are very much likely here,” Naseem mentioned.
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