Former Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq has claimed a large scale around the recent fall faced by the Pakistan team in international cricket ahead of the Asia Cup and blamed the choice of big cricketing countries like India, England and Australia.
Just beyond Pakistan’s Asia Cup 2025 campaign, a former player has made a major comment on the current struggles from Pakistan and cited a major concern that did not pay attention to many cricket pundits.
The last three years of the international calendar will undoubtedly be the most forgotable years for the Pakistan cricket team. He has been excluded from the group stages of the last 3 mainstream ICC tournaments, and his standing on the ICC World Test Championship Points Table has also been shameful.
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Former Pakistan captain attacks India for Pakistan’s collapse
Just before Pakistan started its Asia Cup campaign on 12 September, former captain Misbah-ul-Haq has claimed that the fall of Pakistan cricket in recent times is due to coming in contact with top teams like England, Australia and India.
India and Pakistan have stopped playing bilaterally for more than a decade, while other above teams rarely play against Pakistan. Pakistan focuses on facing most of the weak teams, which do not challenge their players much, so they hindered the development of the player.
“Pakistan does not play against India, and only plays big teams like England and Australia every two years while playing continuously against small teams, then how will Pakistan cricket team improve?” Misbah-ul-Haq quoted by Pakistan media said.
Current Form of Pakistan Cricket in International Cricket in three formats
Pakistan’s national team is currently going through a large -scale turmoil in international cricket, between which they made some changes in their central contracts introduced to the players, made some hard calls for the Asia Cup squad, and finally announced their decision to cut their player of ICC revenue.
As far as performance in recent tournaments is concerned, Pakistan has performed very weak, as they have lost two of their last 3 tests and 9 of their last 11 Odis matches. In addition, in the shortest format of the game, he recently lost 7 of his 14 T20I matches to the Tri-series, where he lost only one of his 5 matches.
Currently, he is ranked 7th in the ICC Test rankings, while he is ranked 7th in T20Is and 5th in Odis.
Pakistan won UAE TRAI-series a few days before Asia Cup 2025
Next to the Asia Cup, Pakistan played a three-series related to Afghanistan and UAE in the United Arab Emirates. This helped players over some more sports time in the UAE ground.
However, many people claimed Afghanistan as the second best Asian team, while some were in support of Sri Lanka to challenge India in the Asia Cup. However, Pakistan was not considered in any aspect.
Captain Salman Ali Aga re-established Asha within the Pakistan team and carried on the front as Pakistan defeated Afghanistan twice in the TRAI-series and won a series to mark a grand opening for the preparation of its Asia Cup.
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