Kamran Akmal Slams PCB For Making 'Low-standard Requests': 'We Shouldn't be Making Excuses'

Kamran Akmal feels that Pakistan should not think about the conditions and venues as in modern-day cricket. any team can beat anyone on their home turf.

'We Shouldn't be Making Excuses', Kamran Akmal Slams PCB For Making 'Low-standard Requests'

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Kamran Akmal Slams PCB For Making 'Low-standard Requests'. Previous wicketkeeper batsman Kamran Akmal has attacked Pakistan Cricket Board for requesting changes in settings for the impending ODI World Cup 2023 which was in the end denied by the ICC. The Pakistan cricket crew is set to head out to India interestingly since the 2016 T20 World Cup. The ICC has reported the timetable for the 2023 ODI WC as Pakistan will play India at Narendra Modi Arena, Ahmedabad, which the PCB didn't need. While the board likewise needed to trade the settings for Australia (Bengaluru) and Afghanistan (Chennai) conflict, while the solicitation was additionally denied.

Akmal feels that Pakistan shouldn't contemplate the circumstances and scenes as in advanced cricket any group can beat anybody on their home turf.

"Conditions, and scenes ought not be a worry for groups any longer. These things shouldn't occur in worldwide cricket. Today, India beat Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand on their own turf. We ought not be rationalizing like why we are playing against Afghanistan in Chennai, or India in Ahmedabad. Your attention ought to be on cricket just," Akmal said during a meeting with paktv.tv.

He encouraged the PCB to quit making low-standard solicitations like changing or trading occasions while playing a specific group.

"It's my solicitation to board individuals, quit making such low-standard solicitations," he added.

Pakistan have done well in the last two T20 World Cups as they arrived at the elimination round in the 2021 semi-last while winding up as the other participants last year.

Pakistan are as of now positioned second in the ICC's ODI group rankings, just behind pioneers Australia.

Akmal further said that mentioning such things pull down the degree of cricket.

"The degree of global cricket has progressed now. Players ought to be pleased with their accomplishments, they ought to understand what the fans and the board anticipate from them. You shouldn't express things like this and on second thought pull down the level of your cricket," Akmal further said.