Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchise Quetta Gladiators has decided to remove captain Sarfaraz Ahmed from the captaincy after eight years.
Gladiators owner Nadeem Umar said in a special conversation with Geo News that Sarfaraz Ahmed wants to take a break from the captaincy of the team himself. Coach Shane Watson will decide who the new captain will be after consulting team management.
According to Geo sources, it is believed that Rilley Rossow or Saud Shakeel is being considered to replace him as the captain, and the decision will be taken in the next two to four days.
Quetta Gladiators have also replaced coach Moin Khan after eight years. He has been made the team director while Shane Watson has been given coaching duties.
Nadeem Umar added that the old family of Quetta Gladiators has started coming together again, with team mentor Sir Viv Richards joining the team next week. “We wish Kevin Pietersen also comes in some role with Quetta Gladiators,” he said.
PSL franchise Quetta Gladiators won the 2019 title under the captaincy of Sarfraz Ahmed, while the team has played the final in 2016 and 2017.
Saud Shakeel, the middle-order batsman of the national cricket team, got into an argument with Sarfaraz Ahmed during a training session in Australia. A video of the two having a minor clash has become the center of attention of users on social media.
Seems like saud is still angry that he was benched for 33 games by sarfaraz
It can be seen in the video that Saud Shakeel asks Sarfaraz Ahmed “How long will I continue to work for you,” to which Sarfraz replies, “You are of no use to me, I have never instructed you to do anything.”
Sarfaraz then turns around, while Saud walks a short distance away.
Pakistan’s former captain Babar Azam resigned as the captain of the Pakistan cricket team from all three formats (ODI Test & T20) on November 15.
His resignation followed heavy criticism from fans and former cricketers after Pakistan’s poor performance in the ODI World Cup 2023. The team was not successful in reaching the semi-finals, ending their World Cup journey at the fifth spot.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced Shan Masood as the Test Captain while left-arm pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi became the T20 captain.
The decision to make Shaheen captain of the T20s has been accepted more easily by the general public after he proved himself a competitive captain in the last two seasons of the Pakistan Super League (PSL). His team, Lahore Qalanders, had the unenviable record of being eliminated every time in the group stage in earlier seasons. However, under Afridi, they won two trophies.
Now the question arises as to why Shan Masood was picked captain in the Test format.
Fans believe there were better options in the team like wicketkeeper-batsman Muhammad Rizwan and Sarfraz Ahmed, who led Pakistan to the Champions Trophy under the captaincy in 2017. The team won 11 consecutive T20 series under his captaincy.
Muhammad Rizwan is also a consistent player in all formats, with a better average and strike rate than Shan’s in all three formats.
Here is the all-time performance of Rizwan, Sarfraz, and Shan in test format (International).
Here is all time performance of these three players in all formats (International).
Shan Masood
Muhammad Rizwan
Sarfraz Ahmed
If the PCB must choose a captain on the player’s performance, then Rizwan must be the captain instead of Shan. But if they are picking a captain because he can speak good English or whatever, then our cricket will never improve, analysts and fans gave said.
In the past, every time Pakistan lost in any tournament, captains, coaches, and selectors were changed without a positive outcome.
Pakistan is set to play a three-match test series against Australia starting from December 14.
The new chief selector Wahab Riaz picked Imam-ul-Haq in the batting lineup despite the batter totally failing during the Asia Cup and World Cup 2023 campaign, while he didn’t select Sahib Zada Farhan by saying that “no place is left in the team”, effectively sidelining a very good right-handed batsman.
They also didn’t pick Muhammad Abbas who took 90 wickets in 25 test matches.
The need of the hour is the selection of captain, coach, or selector, should be on merit, otherwise, we cannot change our system.
Sarfaraz Ahmed’s singing skills were on full display at the Qawali Night of the cricketer Shaan Masood’s wedding ceremony. A viral video shows Sarfarz singing the song “Mubarak Ho Tumko Yeh Shaadi Tumhari.”
People on social media have been blown away by Sarfaraz’s singing skills.
Shan Masood had an intimate nikah ceremony on January 22 with former all-rounder Shahid Afridi and Shadab Khan among the cricket players who were attended the exchange of vows.
Tomorrow, January 27, the batter will throw a valima reception for his friends and family in Karachi.
From wanting to become Pakistan’s cricket team coach to losing against Pakistan, it’s been a long road for Rohit Sharma.
After Pakistan’s thumping victory against India, an odd video of Indian cricket team captain Rohit Sharma surfaced on social media.
In the video, the reporter asked Rohit, “What would you suggest to Pakistani batsmen so that they come out of this crisis?” Pakistan had just been comprehensively defeated in World Cup 2019 by arch rivals India.
To this, Sharma sarcastically responded by saying, “If I ever become the coach of Pakistan’s team, I will tell them”.
Reporter: “What would you suggest to the Pakistani batsmen to come out of this crisis?”
On September 4, Pakistan won against India by five wickets in a do-or-die match of the Asia Cup 2022. Sharma scored 28 runs. For Pakistan, Shadab Khan picked up two wickets for 31 runs, while Mohammad Hasnain, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah and Muhammad Nawaz took a wicket each.
Prior to this, in another India vs Pakistan match which was played on August 28, Sharma got out after scoring only 12 runs.
In yesterday’s (September 8) match against Afghanistan, Indian cricketer KL Rahul stepped in as captain for the toss. He said that Sharma “wants to take a break”.
Last year, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) named Rohit Sharma as the new One Day International (ODI) captain of the Indian cricket team. He took over from his predecessor, batting maestro, Virat Kohli.
Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, breathed her last on Thursday in Balmoral Castle, United Kingdom (UK) at the age of 96.
In 1961, Queen Elizabeth visited Pakistan. She was accompanied by her husband, Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip. She visited Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta, Lahore, and other areas of the country.
Queen Elizabeth in Pakistan, credit @GettyImages – 1961 Queen Elizabeth waved to the crowds as she rode in a convertible through the streets of Karachi. 1/n pic.twitter.com/DD76MK0He6
The Queen next visited Pakistan 36 years later in 1997 when the country was celebrating 50 years of independence. She was again accompanied by her husband, Prince Philip.
Here is the list of the Pakistanis who met Queen Elizabeth II during her lifetime.
In 1974, Queen Elizabeth met Imran Khan, who was a cricketer back then. In the picture, she can be seen shaking hands with Khan.
In 1997, Queen Elizabeth met former Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif (who was in power at the time) when she visited Pakistan for the second time. During her visit, knighthood was given to Sharif by the British monarch.
In 2013, the Queen and Prince Philip invited Pakistan’s young activist Malala Yousafzai to a reception at the Buckingham Palace, where they met and chatted for a short time.
Malala, who was accompanied by her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, presented the Queen with a copy of her newly published memoir, titled “I am Malala”.
Before the start of the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) World Cup 2019, all team captains met The Queen. At the time, Pakistani cricket team captain Sarfraz Ahmed also met her at the Buckingham Palace.
Former Pakistan cricket team captain Sarfaraz Ahmed’s wife, Khushbakht Sarfaraz posted a video of her husband on twitter with the caption,”Perks of him being around”. The video went viral on social media, with fellow cricketers praising him for his baking skills.
Journalist Aalia Rasheed left a comment on a lighter note which Sarfaraz misunderstood and said to Aalia that Its better for her to keep her opinion limited to cricket only.
Baat kiya ho rahe hai aur ap kiya baat kar rahe hai Pehle baat apko is conversation me aana nahe chahiye tha yaha circket nahe chal rahe hai .behtar hai apne Rai circket pe rakhe to zada behtar hoga personal na ho zada ap
Baat kiya ho rahe hai aur ap kiya baat kar rahe hai Pehle baat apko is conversation me aana nahe chahiye tha yaha circket nahe chal rahe hai .behtar hai apne Rai circket pe rakhe to zada behtar hoga personal na ho zada ap
All-rounder Mohammad Hafeez and former Pakistan skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed have faced each other for the first time since after their Twitter spat, and memers cannot stop flooding social media with hilarious memes.
Lahore Qalandars on Monday chased a 179-run target to beat Sarfaraz’s Quetta Gladiators in the fourth fixture of the Pakistan Super League’s (PSL).
The match, during which Sarfaraz seemed visibly perturbed over his team’s performance, had followed a spat between Hafeez and Sarfaraz after the former congratulated Mohammad Rizwan for his century against South Africa in the T20 series.
Here is what memers had to post…
“Sarfaraz or Hafeez bht achy twitter friends hain aaj kal” Ramiz Raja not coming slow #LQvQG
T20I world cup se pehle twitter pe Hafeez ka aik aik phadda Kohli, Williamson, Finch aur Moeen Ali se karwana hai phir kisi ka baap worldcup jeet ke dikhaye#HafeezvsSarfraz
Taking to Twitter, Hafeez had earlier written, “Congratulations @iMRizwanPak on scoring T20 hundred. U r a Star shining star Wonder how long u need to prove that u r NO1 wicketkeeper/Batsman in Pakistan in all formats of the game.”
Congratulations @iMRizwanPak on scoring T20 . U r a Star shining star Wonder how long u need to prove that u r NO1 wicketkeeper/Batsman in pakistan in all formats of the game. Just asking pic.twitter.com/e5fSNIaCmN
Sarfraz, responding to the all-rounder’s Tweet wrote, “Hafeez bhai Sb, whoever has played for Pakistan from Imtiaz Ahmed, Wasim Bari, Tasleem Arif to Saleem Yousuf and from Moin Khan, Rashid Latif to Kamran Akmal and even Rizwan right now has always been number ONE for the country and have been respected accordingly.”
Hafeez bhai Sb, whoever has played for Pakistan from Imtiaz Ahmed, Wasim Bari, Tasleem Arif to Saleem Yousuf and from Moin Khan, Rashid Latif to Kamran Akmal and even Rizwan right now has always been number ONE for the country and have been respected accordingly. https://t.co/dF7BScOurl
