Fakhar Zaman on Friday revealed the mindset of the Pakistan cricket team saying that they are capable of beating any team in the world as the Green Shirts prepare for the second T20I against England which will be played at Edgbaston Stadium, Birmingham. Fakhar, who is part of Pakistan\u2019s squad for the T20 World Cup 2024, argued that the Pakistani team possess the strength to beat any team in the world as the mindset is clear and every player is aware of his role. \u201cEverything is set for the World Cup, people say a lot of things on the media,\u201d Fakhar said during a presser on Friday. \u201cMe and every player know about his role. We are strong enough to beat anyone in the world. \u201cAs a team, we are clear in our mindset that we have to play attacking cricket and we know that only with this mindset, we have a chance [to win the World Cup]. If we are batting first [in any match], then we know we have to score 200 or more.\u201d He then added that his goal is to help the team by playing attacking cricket regardless of how many runs he manages to score and how the team planned to change its strategy after losing the first T20I against Ireland. \u201cMy role is to play aggressive and attacking cricket, whether I score 10 runs or a fifty, it should benefit the team. You will see in the World Cup that how much our mindset has changed,\u201d he added. \u201cAfter losing the first T20I against Ireland, we met and decided to make a new plan. Playing against a full-strength England side would be crucial before the World Cup.\u201d Zaman also defended his teammate and wicketkeeper batter Azam Khan after a journalist pinned nepotism allegations on the 25-year-old. Azam, a son of former Pakistani wicketkeeper Moin Khan, has often been accused of being a nepotism product but Fakhar denounced the claims and urged the journalist to do research before questioning Azam\u2019s struggles. \u201cI can also say that you have come here by recommendation, but it would be a good thing if you see how a player has come, how much struggle he has gone through. In my opinion, you should also come after doing a little research first,\u201d Fakhar said to the journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Fakhar Zaman on Friday revealed the mindset of the Pakistan cricket team saying that they are capable of beating any team in the world as…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17437,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}