Hyderabad Kingsmen all-rounder Hammad Azam has launched a scathing attack on Rawalpindiz skipper Mohammad Rizwan over comments made during a press conference.
A few days earlier, Rizwan remarked that Hyderabad did not deserve a place in the playoffs, while acknowledging it could be his personal opinion.
“The last match played in Hyderabad, they didn’t deserve it. This can be my own wrong thinking, I’m sorry for this. This is my own opinion. If they go from here properly, if they oust us from here, then they deserve it. The matches that are going on in Lahore, they are doing very well. The rhythm that they are playing, I think it was their luck,” Rizwan said in a press conference.
Now, Hammad has reacted to the statement and expressed disappointment over Rizwan’s statement, saying a former Pakistan captain should not have made such remarks.
“It was a very bad statement, to be honest. When I heard this thing and saw their press conference, I was very disappointed because I wasn’t expecting that a captain who has been the captain of PSL for a long time, you have been the ex-captain of Pakistan, you have decided that we don’t deserve it because one game went bad,” Hammad said.
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He also highlighted Rizwan’s performance as captain over the last two seasons of the Pakistan Super League (PSL), urging the batter to focus on his own performances.
“Now, if we come to personal performances, I think he [Rizwan] have won two matches in the last 18 matches, one this year and one last year. So, they should also do self-analysis that what they deserve and what they don’t deserve,” he stated.
“One game can go bad, there is nothing like that in that. And against them, the first match we played, we bowled them out for 125. In this match, we defeated them by more than 100 runs. So, that thing should go in our positive. So, I think we deserve it. We are at this stage, at this place.” Hammad Azam concluded.
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