Follow UsFormer Pakistan all-rounder Imad Wasim believes the people will lose interest if the national team continues putting up poor performances as they did in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025. Pakistan, who also hosted the tournament, ended the tournament without a victory. Their losses came against New Zealand and India before their match against Bangladesh was washed out.
“You got to play cricket like it should be played at. This is not the right way. For me, if you ask me as a cricketer, not even as a Pakistani, as a cricketer, I watch some of the games of the Pakistan team play, and I feel I just don’t want to watch it," Imad said.
“Look, the interest will lose eventually. People won’t come and watch cricket if we play like this. You must have seen the crowd was full in the England-Australia match [February 22 in Lahore] and how they play cricket. I can understand the solution, what I am telling you. When you go somewhere, you assess the condition, and then you play.
"But your first instinct is to go out there and attack the opposition. And then, if you lose wickets, then you can assess the condition again like this is 250, 260, 300 wickets, or whatever. So, your first instinct is just to go out there and attack, not to think like, okay, we scored 250. So, like, we are way behind where the world is."
This was Mohammad Rizwan's first-ever ICC event as a captain. Pakistan lost the first game against New Zealand by 60 runs and then suffered a six-wicket loss against India in Dubai before their final game against Bangladesh in Rawalpindi was washed out.
