With the appearance of social media, quite a lot of issues have modified relating to interacting with our favorite celebrities. The lives of cricketers, who’re worshiped like gods of their international locations, have additionally turn into extra accessible to their followers by their social media handles. Pakistan Cricket’s Twitter deal with is not any totally different. Throughout the T20 World Cup, they’ve documented the journey of the crew by varied movies which showcases the cricketers in several moods. Pakistan legend Wasim Akram, nevertheless, will not be a fan of documenting each single factor that goes on across the crew, insisting that some moments had been meant to be non-public.
On Sunday, after making their solution to the semifinals after defeating Bangladesh by 5 wickets, the Pakistan Cricket Twitter deal with shared a video of skipper Babar Azam giving a rousing speech to his teammates. Talking about that on A Sports, Akram stated, “I think we are overthinking stuff and I think if I was Babar, I would get hold of that guy who’s making a video. Sometimes, some things are personal. I am all for social media, players interacting with the fans and everything. I haven’t seen any other team do this in the World Cup. So yeah, the urge to get extra numbers, cut it down. It’s just too much.”
“They are recording all the time. Imagine if I am sitting and not knowing that somebody is recording whatever message I want to give to my team, I’ll just tell the guys to just relax for two days. Do it in practice or some other place, there’s no problem with it,” Akram could be heard saying this at across the 1 hr 06 minutes mark in a video shared by A Sports of their YouTube channel.
Another Pakistan legend current within the panel was Waqar Younis, who agreed with Akram. “I 100% agree with you (Akram). Whatever happens inside the dressing room, should stay there. This was a problem earlier as well when a lot of information was leaked from the meetings and stuff. People used to scream and fight. And now you yourself are recording these things,” he stated.
