{"id":81405,"date":"2024-06-15T21:19:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T21:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wasim-akram-takes-dig-at-pakistans-early-t20-world-cup-exit\/"},"modified":"2024-06-15T21:19:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T21:19:06","slug":"wasim-akram-takes-dig-at-pakistans-early-t20-world-cup-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wasim-akram-takes-dig-at-pakistans-early-t20-world-cup-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasim Akram takes dig at Pakistan&#039;s early T20 World Cup exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"featuredimg\">\n <\/p>\n<p class=\"captionimg\">Wasim Akram takes dig at Pakistan\u2019s early T20 World Cup exit<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Pakistan\u2019s cricket team faces criticism.<\/li>\n<li>USA qualifies for Super 8 stage.<\/li>\n<li>Akram jokes about Pakistan\u2019s early departure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Pakistan cricket squad is under intense scrutiny from supporters and past cricketers due to their substandard performance in the current T20 World Cup, resulting in their exit from the event.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Shirts couldn\u2019t advance to the Super Eight stage after being defeated in their first two matches by the United States and India.<\/p>\n<p>With the USA-Ireland match called off because of rain on Friday, the co-hosts earned a point, thereby quashing Pakistan\u2019s chances of moving forward in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>After Pakistan\u2019s disqualification, the International Cricket Council (ICC) shared a video on Instagram featuring Tanvi Shah and cricket legend Wasim Akram.<\/p>\n<p>In their discussion, Shah remarks that this is the third occasion Pakistan has been eliminated in the opening round of the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Wasim initially extends his congratulations to the tournament\u2019s co-hosts for making it to the Super Eight and comments on Pakistan\u2019s exit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to team USA; they\u2019ve done amazingly well. When you talk about globalisation of the game, this is it USA qualifying for the Super Eights. They deserve to be there. They\u2019ve beaten Pakistan in the round match so they\u2019re there,\u201d Wasim stated.<\/p>\n<p>He then humorously jibes at Pakistan, saying: \u201cFor Pakistan, what\u2019s the plan? EK-601 to Dubai and then to the respective cities. 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The Pakistan cricket squad is under intense scrutiny from supporters and past cricketers due to their substandard performance in the current T20 World Cup, resulting in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81406,"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:\/\/www.bolnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/FotoJet-2024-06-15T141426.812.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81405","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=81405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}