Srinagar: Former Pakistan pacer Mohammad Amir has taken a indirect dig at batter Mohamnad Rizwan over his comment on breaking of opening pair in T20I’s.
Mohammad Rizwan recently said that breaking up the opening pair had negatively impacted Pakistan.
“You can say that it [breaking the opening pair] has hurt Pakistan. I have told you before, you will see the effects eventually,” Rizwan said in a post match presser.
“Regarding the opening pair, we have spoken to the management, captain and Hafeez bhai, and I can only say that Babar bhai has a big heart. We both agreed there’s no issue, whatever they want to try, they should experiment”.
Meanwhile Amir indirectly criticised Rizwan, stating that he himself relished batting at the top for four years and implying that Rizwan is not affording the 21-year-old Ayub even four games to establish his position.
Mohammad Amir posted on X in Urdu (formerly Twitter), “Bhai jaan khud 4 saal maze kiye hain bachon k 4 matches k failure se khuch hurt ni hwa jab different cheezen try ki jati hain un ko time dena parta hai bara simple hai.”
[Brother, you have had fun for four years. No one is getting hurt if youngsters fail for four games. When you try new things, you need to give them time. It’s that simple.]”
Rizwan and Babar opened together in 51 T20I innings, scoring 2,400 runs at an average of 48.97. They were the only pair to score more than 500 runs at the top of the order for the team, with eight hundred-plus stands.