PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi's informal conversation with journalists, "Today's defeat was disappointing in every respect. It seemed that the cricket team would be fine with a small surgery, but after today's very poor performance, I am convinced that major surgery is needed."
"Pakistani cricket is currently at its lowest level of performance," Naqvi continued.
"Our biggest challenge is to improve the performance of the team. The nation will soon see a big change. We have to prepare the team for the Champions Trophy. The time has come to give a chance to talent sitting outside. We want to make the Pakistani cricket team one of the best in the world."
"It is well known what was going on in the team and the reasons for losing," he added. "The nation does not expect such a disappointing performance from the cricket team."
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Babar Azam reckoned not utilising the batting powerplay well enough and then playing too many dot balls in the middle overs were the main reasons behind Pakistan not being able to chase down 120 in their T20 World Cup 2024 match against India in New York.
"In our mind, we wanted to play normally, utilise the first six overs in the batting and [if we had done that] we win," Babar said after Pakistan's six-run defeat. "But one wicket down and we were not up to the mark in the first six overs. We were targeting like 40 to 45 runs in the first six overs, but we did not capitalise properly and yes after the ten overs also we made the same mistake."
