Champions Trophy 2025: The host and defending champion Pakistan team of ICC Champions Trophy has been eliminated from the tournament this time. In this mega event, the Pakistan team entered with the title of defending champion. There were some expectations from them. But this team had to face defeat in both the opening matches of their group and they have been eliminated in a shameful manner.
Champions Trophy 2025: The Pakistan team was easily defeated by Team India by 6 wickets on Sunday. So before this, in the first match of Group-A, this team captained by Mohammad Rizwan was defeated by New Zealand by 60 runs. With this, now Pakistan’s dreams are shattered.
Champions Trophy 2025: So let us tell you in this article the 3 reasons why the Pakistan team proved to be a flop in the Champions Trophy.
3. Pakistan’s weak fielding: Champions Trophy 2025
Champions Trophy 2025: The Pakistan team has always been troubled by one of its problems on the cricket field. That has been their fielding. The level of fielding of the Pakistan team has been so poor that mistakes like school children are seen from them. The mistakes of Pakistan’s fielders in the first two matches of this tournament cannot be hidden. Where they made mistakes from ground fielding to catching and brought the team to this situation.
2. Star bowlers like Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf conceded runs
Champions Trophy 2025: Pakistan team had high hopes from the two most dangerous fast bowlers of their bowling unit Shaheen Shah Afridi and Haris Rauf. But both these bowlers disappointed a lot. Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf conceded a lot of runs in both the matches played so far in this tournament. Talking about Haris Rauf, he conceded runs at an economy of 7.94 in 2 matches and took only 2 wickets. On the other hand, Shaheen was also almost at par and he conceded runs at an economy of 7.88 in 2 matches and could take 2 wickets. The opposing team benefited from his poor bowling.
1. Slow batting of Babar-Rizwan
Pakistan’s team had a very poor performance in this Champions Trophy. In which the biggest villains proved to be the 2 biggest star players of their team. Former team captain Babar Azam and team captain Mohammad Rizwan disappointed with their batting. Both the batsmen batted very poorly in both the matches of this tournament. Their slow innings harmed the team. Babar scored 64 runs in 90 balls against New Zealand. On the other hand, Rizwan could score only 49 runs facing 91 balls in both the matches of this tournament.
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