Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ramiz Raja has shared some lesser-known details of how he planned the dismissal of Rohit Sharma in advance before the ICC T20 World Cup 2021. For the first time in two years, Pakistan and India went head-to-head at the ICC T20 World Cup 2021 at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium earlier this year on October 24.
Fans expected the Indian cricket team to dominate their arch-rivals like always. However, the story was very different. The Pakistan cricket team dominated from the first over. Pakistan skipper Babar Azam won the toss and decided to bowl first at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
Left-arm fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi opened the bowling for the Pakistan cricket team. He stunned the Indian openers with his fiery pace. First he trapped Rohit Sharma in front of his stumps and then rattled the stumps of his opening partner KL Rahul. In the end, Shaheen also dismissed the Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli.
Ramiz Raja reveals the conversation he had with captain Babar Azam before T20 World Cup 2021
Before the ICC T20 World Cup 2021 began, Babar Azam had a chat with Ramiz Raja where the two discussed the strategies for the ICC T20 World Cup 2021 matches. They specially discussed the plans for the big game against the Indian cricket team. Babar told Ramiz that they will use the Cricviz tool for their planning. But Raja told him that even India will use that Cricviz tool, so there will not be anything special about it. He then gave the following plan to Babar on how to dismiss Rohit Sharma.
“I can tell you how to get rid of Rohit Sharma right now and Babar was intrigued,” Ramiz Raja said on the BBC podcast. “I said get Shaheen Afridi bowling at 100mph, get a man at short-leg and a 45. Just bowl that inswinging yorker at 100mph and do not give him a single and keep him on strike. You will get him out.”
The same thing happened. Shaheen trapped Rohit Sharma LBW. Eventually, the Pakistan cricket team won the match against Team India by 10 wickets.
