{"id":54929,"date":"2026-03-01T05:44:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/54929"},"modified":"2026-03-01T05:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:44:26","slug":"basit-ali-blames-both-coach-players-for-pakistans-t20-world-cup-struggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/54929","title":{"rendered":"Basit Ali blames both coach, players for Pakistan\u2019s T20 World Cup struggles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"min-height:300px\">\n<p><strong>Former Pakistan batter Basit Ali has said that responsibility for Pakistan\u2019s disappointing T20 World Cup campaign lies not only with head coach Mike Hesson, but also with the players themselves.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the programme Har Lamha Purjosh, Basit criticised the team combination selected against Sri Lanka, arguing that corrective steps were taken only after significant damage had already been done. \u201cWhen the water rises above your head, only then do you take action,\u201d he remarked, suggesting that the management reacted too late to obvious flaws.<\/p>\n<p>He reiterated that leg-spinner Abrar Ahmed should have featured earlier in the tournament. \u201cHad you played Abrar against England, the situation might have been different,\u201d Basit said, maintaining that strategic errors had been made from the outset.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe title=\"Players Are as Much to Blame as Head Coach Mike Hesson, Says Basit Ali\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8gBrvGIcQJ4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>While clarifying that he is not an opponent of Babar Azam, Basit Ali questioned his place at number four in the current setup. \u201cWe are not against Babar Azam, but in this team combination, he does not fit at number four,\u201d he argued.<\/p>\n<p>Without naming anyone directly, Basit also responded to a recent comment suggesting that even senior teams have struggled against India in the past. \u201cLook at the bowling performance against Sri Lanka. You have to take wickets; you have to put in the work,\u201d he said, emphasising accountability over excuses.<\/p>\n<p>Cricket analyst Najeeb Al Hussnain added that the XI fielded against Sri Lanka exposed flaws in Pakistan\u2019s original World Cup selection. He particularly questioned why Fakhar Zaman had been pushed down the order earlier. \u201cWhen he opened, you saw how well he played,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion reflects growing debate over Pakistan\u2019s team strategy, selection consistency and role clarity in the shortest format.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/basit-ali-blames-coach-players-for-pakistans-t20-wc-struggles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistan batter Basit Ali has said that responsibility for Pakistan\u2019s disappointing T20 World Cup campaign lies not only with head coach Mike Hesson, but also with the players themselves. Speaking on the programme Har Lamha Purjosh, Basit criticised the team combination selected against Sri Lanka, arguing that corrective steps were taken only after significant damage had already been done&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/1772343866_unnamed-file.jpg",750,369,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":2563,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":2563,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}