Left-arm pacer Fareed Malik, one of the voyaging holds in the Afghanistan contingent for the World Cup, actually can’t move past the result of the Asian Games last against India in Hangzhou. Put in to bat, Afghanistan were 112 for five preceding precipitation showed up at Zheijang College of Innovation Cricket Field on Saturday. No play was conceivable after that and India were granted the gold award based on their predominant world positioning.
The no outcome implied that Afghanistan needed to agree to silver for their third continuous Asian Games after 2010 and 2014. Cricket was not played in the 2018 release at Jakarta.
Malik, who is 15 ODIs and 28 T20s old in his Afghanistan vocation, played had a significant impact in the success over Pakistan in the low-scoring elimination round with figures of three for 15 out of three overs.
“Aadha kaat dena chaiye tha (snickers). The gold ought to have been shared as the game was deserted. Granting based on rankings, lets simply say it wasn’t great. Match hota to maza aata. It would have been loads of tomfoolery,” Malik, who connected up with the Afghanistan group on Tuesday, told PTI.
Sharing the award isn’t uncommon in multi-sport occasions. Amazing Italian high jumper Gianmarco Tamberi and Qatar’s Mutaz Barshim had shared gold in the Tokyo Olympics after both hopped 2.37 meters. Nonetheless, that opposition was not strike by weather conditions like the Asian Games cricket last.
Malik, group’s captain in the 2019 World Cup Gulbadin Naib, and Sharafuddin Ashraf showed up together from China and were important for the nets on Tuesday. Malik, the 29-year-old from Jalalabad, bowled with full power to the in-structure Rahmanullah Gurbaz and rushed the opener on a couple of events.
Discussing the experience of playing in a non-cricket country like China, Malik said: “It was great yet individuals in the arena had very little information about the game. They were applauding everything whether somebody got out or when a six was hit.” The food was an issue in China however Malik and his colleagues had the option to track down a Muslim café nearby.
“Nahi toh masla ho jata (it might have been an issue),” he added.
