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Followers from India and Pakistan joined forces to troll the Males in Inexperienced’s ‘gradual’ and ‘boring’ batting in Champions Trophy.
Pakistan received bowled out for 241. (PC: ICC)
Pakistan’s batting within the first innings of their 2025 Champions Trophy conflict towards arch-rivals India drew immense criticism and trolling from followers on each side of the border for being, in keeping with them, too ‘gradual’ and ‘boring’. Followers complained that seeing the Males in Inexperienced bat made them sleepy.
Pakistan received bowled out for 241 within the last over, setting India a sub-par 242-run goal to win. Saud Shakeel top-scored with 62 (76) and no different batter crossed fifty. Extra tellingly, aside from Haris Rauf, no batter and even tailender scored at a strike-rate of upper than 100.
Your complete crew mixed to attain 14 boundaries and hadn’t scored even one six until the forty second over. Though the gradual pitch on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium did play a job, a scarcity of intent and game-state as a result of common wickets from the Indian bowlers additionally stored the leash.
Examine a number of the funniest reactions right here:
Batting sirf leni nai hoti, karni bi hoti hai— ???????????????????????????? 🇵🇰 (@itsmeSehrish) February 23, 2025
Pakistan batting so boring, even Indian followers are outraging.— Foolish Level (@FarziCricketer) February 23, 2025
Pakistan performs cricket like they’re doing a Financial institution Job…— Kunal Kamra (@kunalkamra88) February 23, 2025
Pakistan was by no means a dominant batting aspect however relied on extraordinary skills who lined their flaws.This, nevertheless, is the weakest batting lineup ever—technically flawed, mentally fragile, and missing the talent set wanted to compete on the highest stage.#PAKvIND #CT2025
— Rana Husnain Aleem (@husnain19X) February 23, 2025
Babar Azam confirmed first rate intent along with his 23 (26) however received out attempting to go after a large supply from Hardik Pandya. Imam-ul-Haq received run out quickly after, which put Saud Shakeel and Mohammad Rizwan into rebuild mode, making them take nearly half of the innings for his or her 104-run partnership.
The strain was not solely on Shakeel and Rizwan but in addition on the upcoming batters, who had too few deliveries to get used to the pitch and push the rating past a aggressive stage.