Akhtar, who’s these days taking part in within the Legends League Masters in Qatar, additionally desires Asia Cup 2023 to be held in Sri Lanka if now not in Pakistan. Apart from the Asia Cup, Pakistan additionally has the internet hosting rights for the 2025 Champions Trophy.
“I want Asia Cup 2023 to be held in Pakistan, if not Pakistan then Sri Lanka. I want to see India and Pakistan play the final in the Asia Cup and World Cup. Nothing else should happen in world cricket, just India and Pakistan finals Shoaib Akhtar told ANI.
Since Pakistan was awarded the hosting rights for the 2023 Asia Cup, there has been speculation that India will withdraw its name from the tournament. In October 2022, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah confirmed that India won’t travel to Pakistan for the 2023 Asia Cup.
The new venue will be decided in the second round of the Executive Board meeting of ACC members this month.
Team India last played against Pakistan at the ICC T20 World Cup 2022, which India won by four wickets.
After a wait of 1205 days, Virat Kohli on Sunday finally registered a Test century, bringing up three figures on day four of the fourth Test against Australia in Ahmedabad. Kohli brought up Test century No.28 after flicking Nathan Lyon for a single and helping India push towards a crucial first-innings lead. There was a gap of 41 innings between his last century and this one, with the previous one coming over three years ago against Bangladesh in November 2019.
Kohli scored 186, forming crucial partnerships with Ravindra Jadeja, KS Bharat and Axar Patel that helped India take the lead in Ahmedabad and eventually help qualify for the ICC World Test Championship final in June 2023 at The Oval.
Akhtar feels that with the burden of captaincy removed from Kohli’s shoulders, he will score runs like a “beast” and cross the 100-century mark.
“Virat Kohli needed to get again in shape so it is not anything new for me. The force of captaincy was once on him, in the end, he’s now mentally unfastened. Now he’ll play with such a lot focal point. I’ve whole religion in him that he’ll Score 110-century and spoil the file of Sachin Tendulkar’s 100 global heaps. Now he does not have a load of captaincy and can ranking runs like a beast,” Akhtar said while applauding Kohli.
The “Rawalpindi Express” said that Sachin Tendulkar is his favorite wicket during his international career.
“I take into accout when I advised my teammate that I’d take the wicket of Sachin. At that point we have been taking part in in Kolkata. On the first actual ball, I bagged the wicket of Sachin Tendulkar in entrance of a one lakh crowd. I nonetheless take into accout Half of the bottom went empty after Sachin returned,” said Akhtar.
(With inputs from ANI)