Veteran India cricketer Shikhar Dhawan roasted the Pakistan cricket team on Twitter for their poor and comical fielding during their warm-up match against Australia.
Australia and Pakistan met in their second warm-up fixture for the World Cup 2023 on Tuesday at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. The Aussies, batting first, piled up 351 runs for the loss of 7 wickets.
During their innings, they got three extra runs courtest of some lethargic, terrible, and funny fielding efforts from Mohammad Wasim Jnr and Mohammad Nawaz. This led to a spate of memes and their trolling on social media, and joining the bandwagon was Shikhar Dhawan.
On the first ball of the 23rd over of Australia’s innings, Marnus Labuschagne tucked a ball from Haris Rauf onto the square of the legside. Wasim ran in from fine leg and Nawaz from deep square leg. Both bent a bit and let it go for each other. Eventually, the ball passed between both of them and went for four. What should have been just a single turned into a boundary!
VIDEO: Shikhar Dhawan trolls Pakistan’s fielding lapse
The pair received heavy trolling on social media. Even Shikhar Dhawan, who is not part of Team India’s ODI squad anymore, trolled them to the surprise of the fans.
“Pakistan & fielding never ending love story” Dhawan tweeted.
Pakistan & fielding never ending love story 🥰😄😄 #PakistanFielding #PakCricket pic.twitter.com/AJzT90hgNM
— Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25) October 3, 2023
Meanwhile, Pakistan had lost their first warm-up match vs New Zealand, where the Kiwis chased down the target of 346 runs comfortably. Pakistan’s bowling woes continued as Australia cracked 351 runs today.
Teams:
Pakistan (Batting XI, Fielding XI): Abdullah Shafique, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Haris(w), Agha Salman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan(c), Usama Mir, Mohammad Rizwan, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Wasim Jr
Australia (Batting XI, Fielding XI): David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Steven Smith, Josh Inglis, Alex Carey(w), Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Matthew Short, Pat Cummins(c), Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Marnus Labuschagne, Marcus Stoinis, Sean Abbott, Travis Head, Adam Zampa
