Stunning Reaction of Ex Pak Star to Adam Gilchrist's ‘Fixer’ Video
Former Pakistani captain Salim Malik, while discussing the loss of the team to India at the 2024 T20 World Cup, accused Imad Wasim of deliberately wasting balls. While chasing that target of 120 runs, the batsman of Pakistan consumed 59 dot balls to be restricted to 113 for 7 in New York on Sunday. In the losing match, Wasim took 23 balls to score his 15 runs. Malik said, "You look at Wasim's innings, and it appears as if he was wasting balls, not scoring runs, and making things difficult in the run-chase.”
Malik further said, "Imad Wasim made sure he didn't get out and kept improving his batting average. If I'm a batter and I'm not getting runs, then I would try taking a risk, no matter if I got out. But he kept on eating up deliveries and then changed the ends with singles.”
While continuing his statement, he added, "Imad Wasim didn't get to play much cricket since the last PSL. Shadab Khan, who scored 40-odd against the USA in the last game, shouldn't have been promoted up the order. Sorry, but I would like to question why Imad Wasim was promoted up the order, given that he hadn't had enough chances before the World Cup. The batter should at least have tried something instead of playing dot balls.”
Former wicketkeeper-batter of team Australia Adam Gilchrist has criticized the comments.
Watch the video here.
He said with a smile of sarcasm, “A bunch of ex-Pakistan cricketers haven’t missed their teams at all. You go through social media and general commentary. I mean Saleem Malik, of all people. I’m just reading the comments and paraphrasing, and I haven’t heard him say anything, but had I heard him, it wouldn’t have been to my benefit because it was in Urdu. He basically accused Imad Wasim of chewing up deliveries on purpose to make it a bit more interesting. Now I don’t know if there are other accusations that come with that.”
Adam further said, “Then we have Shoaib, who seems to have a tweet ready every time they play.”