After Bangladesh defeats Pakistan, Imran Khan starts a social media rant
After losing the first Test match against Bangladesh by 10 wickets in Rawalpindi, the Pakistan cricket team has come under a lot of fire. From the selection process of the team to the performance of the batsmen, there were different parts of the game that got heavily criticized by both fans and experts.
Former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan blasted the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) headed by Mohsin Naqvi following the humiliating defeat. Imran took to social media to call the defeat "embarrassing" and accused the Naqvi-led PCB of “destroying” the sport in the country by appointing “favorite officials.”
Imran Khan wrote on his X account, “Cricket is the only sport the entire nation watches with great interest on TV, but even that has been destroyed by powerful quarters who brought in an unqualified, favored official to maintain their control.”
He added, “For the first time, we (Pakistan) didn’t make it to the top four in the World Cup or the top eight in T20. And yesterday, we faced an embarrassing defeat against Bangladesh, setting a new low. Just two and a-half years ago, this team had defeated India by 10 wickets. What has happened in these two-and-a-half years that we lost to Bangladesh by 10 wickets? The blame for all of this collapse falls on one institution.”