Pakistan’s opening batter Ahmed Shehzad was seen as the future of the Pakistan cricket team. However, the 30-year-old has not got a single opportunity to play international cricket since 2019. Shehzad was a member of the Pakistan squad that made it to the quarterfinals of the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup.
Speaking of his numbers in international cricket, Ahmed Shehzad has played 81 ODI matches for the Men in Green. He has aggregated 3,614 runs, slamming six centuries and 14 half-centuries. His batting strike rate is in the range of 70, while his highest score is 124.
In Test cricket, he has scored 982 runs in 25 innings. The right-handed batter scored three hundreds and four fifties at a strike rate of 50 in the longest format of the game. Shedding some light on Ahmed Shehzad’s performance in T20I cricket, he scored 1,282 runs in 59 T20I matches of his career.
While Shehzad has not donned the Pakistan cricket team jersey in the last three years, fans are hopeful that he could make a comeback. In an explosive interview with Cricket Pakistan, Shehzad opened up on how the seniors at the Pakistan cricket team mistreated him.
I have said this before and I will say it again: Ahmed Shehzad
Giving the example of how former Indian cricket team captain MS Dhoni backed Virat Kohli during his rough phase with the willow, Ahmed Shehzad said:
“I have said this before and I will say it again, Kohli’s career picked off amazingly because he found MS Dhoni but unfortunately, here in Pakistan, your own people cannot stand your success. Our own senior players and ex-cricketers cannot digest seeing someone succeed in the cricketing world, which is unfortunate for Pakistan cricket.”
Shehzad has been working hard. It will be interesting to see if he gets recalled to the Pakistan cricket squad in the near future.
