Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) head Ramiz Raja has said that he is not supposed to be in Melbourne Stadium to see India vs Pakistan match in T20 World Cup 2022. The former Pakistan cricketer stated that he gets into fights with people surrounding him during the arch-rivalry battle.
Many people asked to join them in Melbourne to get physical live enjoyment of India vs Pakistan match of the World Cup but I denied,” said the PCB chief during an interview. “I will watch the T20 World Cup matches sitting at home, he added.
Ramiz Raja
During the interaction, Raja also praised Star wicketkeeper batter Mohammad Rizwan’s current form, and he accepted the fact that Pakistan has some middle-order issues and they get stuck in crunch situations.
The two arch-rivalry team will start their T20 World Cup 2022 campaign on the same day, October 23 while facing each other. There after, team India will start their T20 World Cup campaign against arch-rivals Pakistan at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on October 23, and will face South Africa on October 30, then, against Bangladesh on November, thereafter, will play a qualifier on November 6 in Melbourne.
India’s squad for T20 World Cup 2022:
Rohit Sharma (C), KL Rahul (VC), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, R Pant (WK), Dinesh Karthik (WK), Hardik Pandya, R. Ashwin, YuzvendraChahal, Axar Patel, Jaspreet Bumrah (at present ruled out), Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh
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