In the PSL game, despite blazing fifty Shaheen Afridi faces Inzamam-ul-Haq’s wrath for promoting himself
The former Pakistani captain, Inzamam-ul-Haq, has come down hard on Shaheen Afridi for promoting himself to No. 5 during Lahore Qalandar’s PSL encounter against the Quetta Gladiators on Sunday. Despite scoring a quickfire half-century off 28 balls, Shaheen faced the wrath of Inzamam as Inzamam felt the captain and Abdullah Shafique consumed too many deliveries.
Inzamam stressed the fact that a mere look at the Qalandars scorecard would glorify both Shaheen and Shafique’s effort, but in reality, it did the team more harm than good.
A miffed Inzamam asked on the channel, “This partnership between Abdullah Shafique and Shaheen Afridi... if you look at the scorecard, then it looks very impressive, scoring 55 off 34 balls and the other scoring 59 off 39 balls. But the scorecard doesn’t do justice to it. They played all the overs—almost 14—and all you could take the total to was 167, whereas it should have been 200 or more. Did anyone feel that Lahore would be able to win from here? Or will Lahore defend it?”
The former Pakistan captain added, “Shaheen coming in to bat at No. 5, but scoring at that pace is not good for the team. When you have specialists such as David Wiese and Sikandar Raza, the score could have been better. Oh, bhai, tezkhel. They need to take care of one big fact. If you start getting into individual efforts, the team’s cause will go for a toss.”