{"id":63256,"date":"2024-02-22T21:17:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T21:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/mohammad-hafeez-responds-to-azam-khans-shocking-comments\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T21:17:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T21:17:22","slug":"mohammad-hafeez-responds-to-azam-khans-shocking-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/mohammad-hafeez-responds-to-azam-khans-shocking-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohammad Hafeez responds to Azam Khan&#8217;s shocking comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_87\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mohammad Hafeez, former director of the Pakistan Cricket Team, has responded to wicketkeeper batter Azam Khan\u2019s comments regarding his selection in the national team.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch ARY News live on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live.arynews.tv\/hq\/\">live.arynews.tv<\/a><\/strong><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Azam Khan, in an interview with International League T20 franchise Desert Vipers, had expressed his reservations regarding his selection in the Pakistan team by lamenting on being made to play a handful of fixtures instead of a full series.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The wicketkeeper batter added that he has been given insufficient chances to prove his mettle in international cricket. He went on to say that he gets frustrated when someone doubts his skills when he is performing with a full mindset.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CRbTSQnh5m5\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Moreover, the cricketer said he feels that he is lacking something he plays for Pakistan. He said he does not feel the same way playing franchise cricket with foreign coaches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mohammad Hafeez responded to Azam Khan\u2019s comments in the A-Sports show \u2018The Pavilion\u2019. According to him, he had categorically told Azam Khan that he would have to work on his fitness and it wasn\u2019t that it would be easy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Mohammad Hafeez responds to #AzamKhan&#039;s comments about not getting enough confidence\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ay2VQbDXNjA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">He added that being fit is a requisite to play in the national team and there should be no compromise in that sector. He said the wicketkeeper batter might have worked on his fitness but it wasn\u2019t seen then.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Mohammad Hafeez claimed that Azam Khan was informed that he is in the management\u2019s future plans despite his lacklustre performances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Hafeez, former director of the Pakistan Cricket Team, has responded to wicketkeeper batter Azam Khan\u2019s comments regarding his selection in the national team. Watch ARY News live on\u00a0live.arynews.tv\u00a0 Azam Khan, in an interview with International League T20 franchise Desert Vipers, had expressed his reservations regarding his selection in the Pakistan team by lamenting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/hafeez.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}