Islamabad: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ramiz Raja made a cheeky remark on India’s exit from the T20 World Cup, saying, Pakistan players are better than the billion-dollar league cricketers. On Sunday, Pakistan will take on England in the final at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).

The former captain spoke to the reporters upon his arrival in Australia. "Teams with billion-dollar leagues are falling behind us. We are doing something right.” This is not the first time Raja has made a ‘billion dollar’ remark. Before the World Cup, he had said that Pakistan must get the credit to the Babar Azam-led team, who defeated the one billion dollars Indian cricket team in the last T20 World Cup.

Meanwhile, Raja also cleared the air on the possibility of the India-Pakistan test series. Former Australia all-rounder Simon O’Donnell has revelead that Australia has offered to host a Test series between India and Pakistan.

“I don’t have any such knowledge about the Test series to be played between India and Pakistan,” said Ramiz. The PCB has earlier threatened to pull out of the 2023 ODI World Cup to be held in India if the BCCI will not send their team to Pakistan for the Asia Cup. Raja also said he is amazed to see the striking similarities in Pakistan’s campaign between 1992 and this World Cup.

“There are striking similarities to the 1992 campaign. There is an air of invincibility, a self-belief like in 92. Back then, we knew that even if the opposition played with 15 in the final, we were not going to lose,” said Raja. However, Raja accepted that the Babar XI looked more relaxed than Imran Khan's 1992 World Cup-winning team.

Published in The Daily National Courier, November, 12 2022

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