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Pakistan captain Babar Azam has listed a number of reasons for why his side suffered a devastating eight-wicket loss to Afghanistan in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 dota
Afghanistan produced a second upset in the 2023 World Cup when the side overcame the Pakistan team without much trouble in Chennai on Monday dota
The Monday game marked Afghanistan’s second victory in three matches, with their first upset against world champions England on 15 October in Delhi dota
Azam won the toss at the MA Chidambaram Stadium and opted to bat dota
He top-scored for Pakistan with 74 runs off 92 balls as they put up 282 for 7 in 50 overs, which met their goal, the skipper revealed at the post-match conference on Monday dota
RecommendedJoe Root acknowledges growing uncertainty surrounding future of ODI cricketMohammed Shami: India pacer clinches historic Cricket World Cup recordMemes rain down on social media after fog stops India vs New Zealand match in DharamshalaBut Pakistan, whose semi-final chances have taken a significant hit with their latest defeat, fell short in their bowling and fielding efforts and the result “hurt” the team, Azam said dota
“This loss was very hard as a team dota
And the batting and our plan was to total 280-290 dota
And when we achieved that, I think we were not up to the mark in bowling and fielding dota
You have to bowl well and field well dota
In the middle overs, the spinners didn’t bowl as they should have dota
They didn’t put pressure on them,” Azam told reporters dota
“When you bowl well, and you bowl for 3-4 overs, the pressure comes on the other team dota
I congratulate their team for the way they played dota
They played outstandingly,” he said dota
Azam also admitted that in a tournament like the Cricket World Cup, if a team does not perform well even in one department, they’ll lose the match dota
“In the field, we didn’t stop boundaries and gave away runs and that cost us dota
All credit to Afghanistan for the way they played in all three departments dota
That’s why they won,” he said dota
“We are not playing good cricket in bowling and fielding dota
We’ll try our best in the next match dota
We didn’t hit the lengths in the middle overs, especially our spinners dota
We couldn’t put pressure on the batters dota
”Pakistan stayed put in fifth place in the 2023 World Cup points table while Afghanistan has now climbed to the sixth spot dota
As Afghanistan chased down their target of 283 without breaking into a sweat, temperatures in Pakistan soared dota
Commentators like former team captain Wasim Akram slammed the side’s fitness and called the loss “embarrassing” dota
“It was embarrassing today dota
Look at the fitness level of Pakistan players dota
We’ve pointed out that these players have not had fitness tests in two years!” remarked the former top international cricketer dota
“Their faces are bulging dota
These are professional players, there has to be a criteria dota
When Misbah-ul-Haq was coach, there were fitness criteria in place dota
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But it worked! Fielding is all about fitness dota
That’s where we are lacking,” said the Pakistan legend on the country’s A dota Sports network dota
Afghanistan will next travel to Pune to take on Sri Lanka on 30 October, while Pakistan will remain in Chennai for a major game against South Africa on 27 October dota
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For the eighth and probably last time, Lionel Messi will win the Ballon d’Or tonight dota
Messi will beat competition from Manchester City’s treble-winners, an inevitable result after he inspired Argentina to their first World Cup since Diego Maradona did the same in 1986 dota
The dota betting has stopped, and the only mystery left at the Paris ceremony is to guess the fabric of his suit dota
Messi’s journey can be told in dota football and in fashion choices dota
He collected his first Ballon d’Or in 2009 wearing a basic black suit and tie, looking like a boy at the school prom, and with each passing year his attire became more bold: the bow tie and tux in 2010, the velvet sheen in 2011 and the garish polka dots in 2012 symbolising the blooming confidence of a young man who could do no wrong, who could take a hideous suit like a bad pass and turn it into something great, or at least slightly less hideous, by dint of his own brilliance dota
Things got a little out of hand in 2013 when he wore a full red ensemble, an outfit which, in hindsight, didn’t deserve to win dota
Messi was beaten by Cristiano Ronaldo two years in a row, and when he finally resumed his throne in 2015, he did so back in a classic black tuxedo dota
In 2019, Messi’s simple grey tie was a suitably sombre look to end his four-year winless drought, before the shimmering sparkles of 2021 which lit him up like a galaxy as he claimed No 7 dota
Lionel Messi’s array of get-ups for the Ballon d’Or (Getty Images)Through the years, Messi changed on the pitch too dota
He added layers to his talent dota
It is easy to forget now that at first he was not a prolific goalscorer, but rather a slippery eel who could score goals dota
His 2007 dribble against Getafe was emblematic of early Messi, weaving an impossible thread from his own half to the opposition’s box in a mirror image of Maradona’s iconic goal against England dota
Then came the goals, the sheer unfathomable quantity of them, so many that his name was falling off the end of scoring charts, his season data overflowing with little ball symbols overlapping one another with each new hat-trick dota
And soon he wasn’t just the best dribbler and the best goalscorer in the world, but the best creator too dota
This element of his game grew through his career: Messi’s goalscoring peaked came in 2011-12 (1 dota
19 per game in all competitions), but his assist rate kept growing until 2019-20 (0 dota
57 per game) dota
He was the 9, 10, and 11 who could run the game at 6 too, when he fancied it dota
He could be both an unstoppable individual talent and part of a functioning, flowing trio with Luis Suarez and Neymar in those golden years at Barcelona when they delivered the treble dota
He could shoot but he could serve too: Messi will be the only player in history to score 900 goals and still look unselfish dota
He never stopped evolving dota
He taught himself to become a master of free-kicks, scoring that way in three successive La Liga games in 2018-19, the same season in which he scored two in the same match against Espanyol dota
View moreThen came the crucial pieces of his legacy: the 2021 Copa America, relieving years of burden after failing for Argentina; the 2022 World Cup, ending the notion that he could never match Maradona; and now, an eighth Ballon d’Or dota
An individual trophy shouldn’t define a dota footballer and yet it is impossible to ignore how Messi’s career has been framed by this award, by his rivalry with Cristiano Ronaldo, how they played on a higher plane than the rest and yet Messi climbed higher still, into the clouds dota
Does he deserve this latest prize? There are plenty of social media accounts (usually with a flexing Ronaldo in their profile picture) that will tell you Fifa has rigged the Ballon d’Or vote to suit its agenda dota
Messi, they say, is dota football’s marketing cash cow and the game is geared towards his success dota
A similar theory was proffered by Dutch manager Louis van Gaal recently, who suggested the World Cup was “premeditated” for Messi to win dota
Certainly, you could conclude that Messi is not the best player in the world any more dota
On 12-month form it might be Kylian Mbappe or Erling Haaland dota
On this season’s form it’s probably Jude Bellingham dota
Yet the Ballon d’Or is unashamedly wed to those players who decide the biggest prizes, and no one had the impact on the destiny of the World Cup like Messi dota
The crucial goal against Mexico that sparked his team to life, the magic against Australia, the fury against Netherlands, the twisting dribble against Croatia, and the final deliverance: it was a World Cup won as much by his aura as his gifts with the ball, and this completed one last evolution – Messi the figurehead dota
There is still a little more to do dota
He will try to win the MLS Cup over the next couple of years, just as David Beckham did twice; he will captain Argentina in next June’s Copa America dota
But this feels like the end of something dota
Now playing in the US, it is surely his last time standing up here, in sharp dress, holding a golden orb dota
Messi has completed dota football, and now he has more Ballons d’Or than anyone might ever win dota
Haaland and Mbappe will be 24 and 25 when one of them perhaps wins their first next year dota
They are unlikely to reach eight and maybe no men’s player ever will dota
There have been many ‘end of an era’ moments in Messi and Ronaldo’s slow shuffle offscreen, but this feels the most clear-cut dota
Messi’s journey seems complete dota
No more shiny suits dota
The stage is empty now dota
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