- Legendry all-rounder Shahid Afridi was angry.
- Pakistan skipper Babar Azam after the 1st ODI.
- Against Netherlands on Tuesday.
Shahid Afridi, former Pakistani captain needed Babar Azam, who scored 74 runs in the main ODI, to hit 100 years in the match.
“I think this was a good opportunity for Babar Azam to score a century because I rate him very highly. There was no need to play that sort of shot at that stage,” Afridi said while speaking on TV’s show Game Set Match.
“Babar also had Fakhar on the other end, who was playing aggressively, so there was no need to play that risky shot,” he added.
Afridi additionally disregarded pundits who question Azam’s style of play.
“Babar should not take pressure of what people say about him. His great performance does the talking for him,” he said.
It should be noticed that opener Fakhar Zaman hit his seventh one-day global 100 years to control Pakistan to a 16-run triumph in the first of a three-match series against the Netherlands in Rotterdam.
Zaman cut out a run-a-ball 109 while Azam hit 74 preceding being gotten in the wake of confounding a conveyance from Dutch paceman Logan van Beek.
The second ODI will be played at the VOC cricket ground on Thursday, with the last match in the series booked for Sunday at a similar scene.
