Published 20:16 IST, November 10th 2019

Shoaib Akhtar takes a dig at Pakistan's old school style of cricket

Shoaib Akhtar had slammed the Pakistan team for playing the 1980s style of cricket after their 2-0 loss against Australia in the recently concluded T20I series.

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Shoaib Akhtar was gutted after Pakistan had lost third and final T20I against Australia on Friday to lose series 2-0. Pakistan, who are top-ranked T20I side have failed to win a single series this year in shortest format of game. After registering 11 consecutive series wins, Men In Green lost an away series against South Africa followed by a one-off T20I earlier this year before y were whitewashed by Sri Lanka at home.

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Shoaib Akhtar slams Pakistan's style of cricket

'Rawalpindi Express' could t hide his disappointment and was very critical of way team had performed. He n went on to say that Pakistan are still playing 1980s style of cricket.

''Pakistan needs to get up. world has moved on but we (Pakistan) are still stuck to that -old process of playing cricket. Pakistan is playing 80s style of cricket. Pakistan cant afford to play 80s style of cricket w", said Shoaib Akhtar.

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Shoaib Akhtar takes a dig at Pakistan

Pakistan's tour to Australia was embroiled in controversy even before team departed to Down Under, with former skipper Sarfaraz Ahmed being sacked and being replaced with Babar Azam as T20 skipper. With Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) having issues with Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Hafeez, Pakistan were forced to adopt a new approach - a youngster dominated side was picked for Australia's series. However, Pakistan's attempts to turn ir fortunes failed miserably and Shoaib Akhtar who has been a staunch critic of Pakistan side took to Twitter to take a dig at number one T20 side. Taking to Twitter, Shoaib Akhtar cryptically indicated at Pakistan going down under mighty Australians in ir home ground. 

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Australia register a comprehensive win

It was a walk in park for Australia after skipper Aaron Finch had won toss and elected to bowl first. Premier Aussie pacer Mitchell Starc put visitors on backfoot with two wickets in two balls off his beautiful inswinging deliveries. He first trapped Pakistan skipper Babar Azam plumb in front of wicket and n cleaned up wicket-keeper batsman Mohammad Rizwan of very next delivery to leave Men In Green reeling at 15/2 before Imam-Ul-Haq followed in some time. Apart from Iftikhar Ahmed, ne of Pakistani batsmen could show any resistance. Ahmed played cameo innings of a 37-ball 45 as Pakistan mand to post 106/8 in ir 20 overs. In reply, Aussies got to target without breaking a sweat riding on a 109-run opening stand between David Warner and Aaron Finch. Aussie skipper remained unbeaten on a 36-ball 52 at a strike rate of 144.44 which included four boundaries and two maximums while Warner remained t out on a 35-ball 48 at a strike rate of 137.14 including four boundaries and three sixes as hosts reached target comprehensively in 12th over with all 10 wickets in hand. 

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19:09 IST, November 10th 2019