This arrogance will fully be repaid in full in World Cup. Allways remember the humble pie you received during cT2017. India had no answer for Fakhar and Aamir. Now picture a team that is rebuilding since then with newer players that India hasn’t faced since then. It’s going to be a slaughter especially with India carrying old man Dhoni. Dinesh fat boy and past it’s prim Jadhav. All it would take is to remove the top 3 which isn’t impossible and India will crumble after that.Thats all most teams including Pakistan has to plan for.
Oh my. Call me sour or whatever you want, but that CT2017 win has done more harm than good for the Pakistan team in all the formats. Yes , it might have given a great joy of beating your arch rival in an ICC final, but in hindsight, it has destroyed Pakistan's chances at the bigger stages .
For a start, it has allowed a top tier hack Fakhar Zaman to not only settle into the odi side for the WC, but also made him open in test cricket in South Africa of all places. Now think about that for a sec .
Moreover, it has made an ordinary bowler like Amir look like Wasim Akram and made him an automatic selection until the Asia cup (where he was rightly made to look like a club level bowler) . And now he's back in the odi setup and might go to England as well with an odi average of 100+ in the last one year.
Finally, it has made Sarfraz Ahmed, who won't even make a Ranji team on merit as the captain of your world cup team ,irrespective of all his failures against the top teams in the formats that actually matter.
And if you think that this team , which is getting beaten up by the SAF team, by the way whom India smashed 5-1 last year, is gonna "slaughter" India at the world cup , then get ready for a few heartbreaks.
There is staying in the reality , then there is being optimistic and then there is just pure delusion. And sadly, you come under the latter.
