Former Pakistan speedster
Shoaib Akhtar has slammed senior batters
Babar Azam and Mohammed Rizwan for yet not becoming the match-winners their country demands from them.
Akhtar's remarks came after Jayden Seales destroyed Pakistan's chase with six wickets as West Indies won the third and final ODI by a huge margin of 202 runs on Tuesday to clinch the series 2-1.
Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Pakistan was dismissed for 92 in 29.2 overs after West Indies had lost the toss and made a challenging 294-6 at Brian Lara Stadium in Tarouba, Trinidad and Tobago, with Hope dominating the innings. The West Indies captain hit five sixes and 10 fours in his 94-ball knock, sharing an unbroken seventh-wicket stand with Justin Greaves of 110 runs in around eight overs.
Greaves was 43 not out in only 24 deliveries, including two sixes and four fours.
Pakistan collapsed early in its chase to 23-4 in the ninth over, with three ducks from its top four batters. Opener Saim Ayub was caught behind on the third ball of the innings, Abdullah Shafique also failed to score, and Pakistan was 8-3 when captain Mohammad Rizwan was bowled by Seales for a golden duck in the third over.
Seales took his fourth wicket by trapping Babar Azam (9) lbw.
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Aap itna khel chuke ho, aap koshish karo ki aap hi match khatam kar ke aao (You have played so much cricket, you should try to finish the game by yourself)," Akhtar said on the show Game On Hai.
"I think this is what goes against Babar Azam and Mohammed Rizwan.
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Babar khelta hai toh kitna acha lagta hai (When Babar bats he looks so good).
Isi cheez ko thoda accelerate kar de aur khatam kar de (He just needs to accelerate his knock and finish the game for his team).
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50 kiya and agla 50 jaldi kare. 50 karne ke liye aapko ghanta guzar na padta hai and aapko wicket ki samajh ho jaati hai (You have scored a half-century and the next 50 should come quickly. For that fifty, you have batted one hour and you know how the pitch is behaving, you just need to double it up)."
Pakistan beat West Indies in the first one-day international on Friday by five wickets. West Indies leveled the series with a five-wicket victory in the second ODI.
Pakistan won the preceding Twenty20 series 2-1 played in Florida.
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