After Pakistan’s 2-1 ODI series loss to Bangladesh, former Pakistan batsman Ahmed Shahzad launched a scathing attack on the team’s leadership and warned that Pakistan cricket is heading to a dangerous level.Speaking after Pakistan’s 11-run defeat in the third and final ODI in Dhaka, Shahzad criticized captain Shaheen Shah Afridi and head coach Mike Hesson, accusing the management of making excuses rather than addressing deep-seated problems within the team.Go beyond limits with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!Shahzad said on his YouTube channel, “After the pathetic T20 World Cup campaign, you didn’t change anything, you brought youngsters out of nowhere. Now you have lost the series and you are pretending to have youngsters in the playing XI.” “You’ll never get ahead in life when you don’t accept your mistakes.”Pakistan was without senior batsmen Babar Azam and Fakhar Zaman during the series, with conflicting explanations given by the team management. While Afridi and Hasan said that the pair have been rested, chief selector Aqib Javed claimed that both suffered injuries during the recent ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.Shehzad also questioned Pakistan’s tactical decisions, particularly Afridi’s call to bowl first in the series decider.He said why did you decide to bowl when you won the toss? It was a good pitch. You should have batted and put runs on the board, then bowled under lights. What do you expect from the youngsters when your senior players behave like this?Bangladesh secured the series thanks to Tanzid Hasan’s brilliant performance, who scored 107 off one ball to guide the hosts to 290 for five at the Sher-Bangla National Cricket Stadium. Pakistan’s chase was led by Salman Ali Agha’s 106-run fightback, but the visitors were eventually bundled out for 279, with Tasin Ahmad taking four wickets.The defeat followed Pakistan’s disappointing exit from the Super 8 stage of the T20 World Cup – their fourth consecutive ICC event without reaching the semi-finals.Shahzad rejected attempts to downplay the administration’s failures. “You say you beat Australia and South Africa, but they never played their full strength teams. If you wanted to fix Pakistan cricket, you would have done it by now.In his harshest criticism, Shahzad warned that Pakistan’s position in international cricket was declining dramatically.“You are becoming an associate team,” he said. “People are now treating Pakistan like Zimbabwe. And then you say we got out of the World Cup because of run rate, shame on you.”
