Pakistan EQUALS Zimbabwe? Imran Khan BIZARRELY Blamed by PCB For Elimination From ICC Champions Trophy 2025

ICC Champions Trophy 2025: Days after Pakistan cricket team's premature ouster from the ongoing ICC Champions Trophy 2025, the PCB has bizarrely blamed ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan. Former PCB chief Najam Sethi has bizarrely gone on to blame Imran for the loss of the side. Sethi blamed Imran for the downfall of cricket in Pakistan. Sethi, in a post on X, highlighted how Pakistan ruled the cricketing world in 2016-2018. Sethi also pointed out how the Pakistan cricket team is nowadays compared to Zimbabwe. 

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'The nation is justifiably angry'

“The nation is justifiably angry. The cricket fraternity says Pakistan has hit rock bottom. How come a cricket team that was once no 1 in T20s (2018) and Tests (2016) and ODIs (1990 and 1996), which won the WC in 1992 and CT in 2017, is today equated with Zimbabwe?” he tweeted. 

"The downfall started in 2019 when a new management under a new PM/Patron changed the domestic cricket structure that had served Pakistan reasonably well for decades and replaced it with an ill-suited Australian hybrid model. Political interference continued; contradictory PCB policies became the norm— foreign coaches were hired and sent packing, selectors were whimsically nominated, old discards were recruited to mentor and manage. Finally, player power, clash of captain egos and groupings in the team came to prevail over fumbling management! The horrible result is before us," he added.

The hosts became the first nation to get knocked out of the semi-final race after losing to New Zealand by 60 runs in the opener and then were defeated by India by six wickets in Dubai. Two consecutive losses mean Pakistan have no chance of going through to the next stage. This result comes as a big setback for a nation that loves it's cricket. 

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Pakistan, who are knocked ouyt already, will play their final group-stage match against Bangladesh .