Former Pakistan cricketer Basit Ali once again scolded the Pakistan team and made fun of the PCB chairman’s statement on surgery. After the T20 World Cup 2024, Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Mohsin Naqvi had said that the Pakistan team needs surgery. On this, Basit Ali said that the surgery of the Pakistan team was not done by the board, but two fast bowlers of Bangladesh did it. Hasan Mahmud and Nahid Rana together took 9 wickets of Pakistan in the second innings of the second Test match going on in Rawalpindi.
Basit Ali expressed disappointment on the performance of the Pakistan team on his YouTube channel and said, “Everyone knows where to start and where to end. Surgery was supposed to happen, but it didn’t happen. The burden of surgery was put on one or two children. Now it seems that if some major surgery happens in the coming days, then things will work out, otherwise not.” Basit further said that there was an old movie Sholay, it had a very famous dialogue that Samba, how many men were there? Sardar two… just two and how many were you? Basit used this dialogue for Bangladesh pacers Hasan Mahmud and Nahid Rana.
The former cricketer said, “Hasan Mahmood and Nahid Rana together dismissed 9 Pakistani batsmen. You know that our tail is big, but the way Hasan Mahmood and Nahid Rana shouldered the burden and showed that this is how a team fights, when they did not bowl well, spinner Mehdi Hasan and Shakib ruled the game. This is called a team game. They out-classed Pakistan, they deserve a white wash. They should white wash Pakistan and show Pakistan how low their cricket is going.”
Basit Ali also said that rain should not stop this match. He said, “I apologize for being a Pakistani, but before that I am an old cricketer and I want cricket to win. Pakistan is losing a lot. If there is a Test series with Afghanistan in the coming days, then we will lose that too. If we keep doing these useless things that we don’t like…” Basit also said that Bangladesh still needs 142 runs and something untoward can happen, but this will only harm Pakistan, because then they will keep saying that we got the Test series drawn.