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  • Pakistan Cricket Team Players Host $25 ‘Meet and Greet’ Dinner, Face Backlash From Ex-Pakistani Captain Ahead Of T20 World Cup | Cricket News

    The Pakistan cricket team and its players continue to spark controversies. Just before the start of their T20 World Cup 2024 campaign, they reportedly hosted a ‘private dinner’ in the USA, inviting fans for a ‘meet and greet.’ However, this event wasn’t free or for charity; it had an entry fee of $25, which upset many in the Pakistani cricket community. Rashid Latif, a legendary Pakistan cricketer, took to social media to criticise this event organized by the Pakistan Cricket Board and the players.

    In a video shared by Latif, fans could meet Pakistan players during the private dinner if they paid $25. Latif and others in the video were shocked by this concept.

    “There are official dinners, but this is a private dinner. Who can do this? It’s terrible. That means you met our players for $25. God forbid, if something went wrong, people would say the boys are just making money,” Latif said in the video.

    Let’s Save The Star & Be Stars Unofficial Private Dinner During WC24#T20WorldCup pic.twitter.com/BXEgPyA2p2 — Rashid Latif | (@iRashidLatif68) June 4, 2024

    Presenter Nauman Niaz condemned the ‘sad state of affairs’ in the Pakistan team, while a fan suggested the price should have been higher if they proceeded with the idea. Latif acknowledged the concept of charity dinners but found a private dinner with a fee unacceptable.

    “People tell me that whoever calls the Pakistani players, they just ask, ‘how much money will you give?’ This has become common. Things were different at our time, we had 2-3 dinners but they were official. But this is highlighted because it’s the World Cup. So the players should be careful. The amount of 25 dollars shouldn’t be blatantly used like this. You attend 2-3 dinners, but without the commercial angle. You can go for charity dinners and fundraisers, but this is neither fundraising nor a charity dinner. This is a private function with the name of Pakistan and Pakistan cricket associated with it. Don’t make this mistake,” he added.

    T20 World Cup 2024: Pakistan’s WC campaign to begin from tomorrow against USA

    The Pakistan team will start their World Cup campaign against the USA at the Grand Prairie Stadium in Dallas on Thursday, June 6. The Men in Green aim to begin their campaign with a win against the USA. In the last edition of the T20 World Cup, Pakistan reached the final but lost to England. Tomorrow Against USA.

  • Fresh happenings gained’t have an effect on emblem of Indian cricket: Rashid Latif

    Former Pakistan skipper Rashid Latif reckons that adjust of guard in Indian cricket gained’t adversely have an effect on its emblem for the reason that nation has sufficient intensity in skill excluding monetary would possibly to resist the churning.

    The BCCI lately got rid of Virat Kohli as ODI skipper and later the famous person batter introduced quitting management in Checks as smartly. He had already hand over T20 captaincy.

    The way wherein the entire fresh tendencies befell and the talk created offered a deficient image of Indian cricket. On the other hand latif mentioned none of it will have to adversely have an effect on Indian cricket.

    “They’ve a powerful base within the IPL and Indian cricket is now established as financially very sturdy so in the end I don’t suppose those fresh adjustments or happenings will have to have any referring to Indian cricket as a emblem,” Latif mentioned at the ‘Cricket Baaz’ Youtube channel.

    “I feel so much now is determined by how Rohit Sharma handles the workforce however he has his personal taste of main the aspect and he has already completed so much with Mumbai Indians within the IPL.

    “It is still observed how motivated he’s going to be to captain in Checks. Kohli introduced power and function to his captaincy and workforce.”

    Latif regardless that felt the Board of Keep watch over for Cricket in India (BCCI) erred in disposing of Kohli as captain of the One-day workforce.

    “I feel it was once a case of getting treated issues the fallacious approach and no approach of going again as smartly. I do know from non-public revel in having long gone via it myself that during one of these scenario when a long-serving captain comes to a decision to step down or is got rid of it’s by no means imaginable that he do not have had discussions with the board best officers.”

    “Once I stepped down as captain in 2004 it was once most effective when I spoke with our board chairman. For this reason I’m pronouncing I feel the BCCI has made a mistake in how it treated this actual factor. It’s not excellent for Indian cricket.”

    The previous wicketkeeper-batsman mentioned it was once by no means simple to modify a captain who has been round there as a pacesetter for such a lot of years.

    “When you’ve got somebody as a pacesetter for 5 years or extra and such a success as captain that clearly they’re folks within the workforce who’re dependable to him and it does disturb the dressing room setting.”

    Latif mentioned that India’s defeats in South Africa have been a results of the unsure setting within the Indian workforce. The workforce misplaced each the Check and ODI collection.

    “I’m really not pronouncing somebody intentionally didn’t need to carry out, each skilled desires to do smartly but if the surroundings in a workforce adjustments it does have an effect on the gamers in some ways.”