Rana
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Mohammad Rizwan:
"I didn’t really think about my spot in the playoffs at first. My initial desire was that Lahore must qualify because I love them too, but I knew I had to focus on my match first.
By the time we needed 119 runs off just 30 balls during the timeout, I went out and Usman Khawaja was already there. When he asked me what we should do, I told him honestly that I don’t think Hyderabad deserved to play in the playoffs after the way they played their last game. That was just my opinion, which could be wrong.
I told them that if they got us out from there, then they might deserve to proceed further in the playoffs. In my view, the final matches of Lahore Qalandars were the best, they played with great rhythm. They had some luck and their effort was also incredible. Between a run-out so much happened that you just can’t complain about the result."
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This is pretty bad. Even in the match thread, we noted that Rizwan had his hearts set on somehow doing whatever he can to make Lahore Qalandars qualify. He even mentioned something like this at the toss.
But the critical point which could and most likely should land him in trouble is how he admits himself that he was asked about how to go about the game by Khwaja at a critical point. And his response to him is was “the way Hyderabad played the last game, they do not deserve to qualify”.
So what exactly was he telling Khwaja to do? Not try and go for the hits that could take his team close to 244 and instead survive in a way that just knocks out a team out by taking singles and hitting the odd boundary?
What’s going on here??
"I didn’t really think about my spot in the playoffs at first. My initial desire was that Lahore must qualify because I love them too, but I knew I had to focus on my match first.
By the time we needed 119 runs off just 30 balls during the timeout, I went out and Usman Khawaja was already there. When he asked me what we should do, I told him honestly that I don’t think Hyderabad deserved to play in the playoffs after the way they played their last game. That was just my opinion, which could be wrong.
I told them that if they got us out from there, then they might deserve to proceed further in the playoffs. In my view, the final matches of Lahore Qalandars were the best, they played with great rhythm. They had some luck and their effort was also incredible. Between a run-out so much happened that you just can’t complain about the result."
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This is pretty bad. Even in the match thread, we noted that Rizwan had his hearts set on somehow doing whatever he can to make Lahore Qalandars qualify. He even mentioned something like this at the toss.
But the critical point which could and most likely should land him in trouble is how he admits himself that he was asked about how to go about the game by Khwaja at a critical point. And his response to him is was “the way Hyderabad played the last game, they do not deserve to qualify”.
So what exactly was he telling Khwaja to do? Not try and go for the hits that could take his team close to 244 and instead survive in a way that just knocks out a team out by taking singles and hitting the odd boundary?
What’s going on here??
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