Iceland Cricket Takes Dig At Pakistan Team After Their Loss Against Australia In 1st Test | Cricket News

Iceland Cricket as soon as once more took a dig on the Pakistan cricket crew forward of their Boxing Day conflict in opposition to Australia on the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). In their hunt for his or her first Test victory on Australia’s soil, Pakistan suffered an enormous 360-run defeat within the 1st Test in Perth. They will proceed their hunt on December 26 as each groups will sq. off with Australia combating to clinch the sequence, whereas Pakistan will compete to maintain the three-match Test sequence alive.

After Pakistan’s defeat, Iceland Cricket took to X, to take a savage dig on the Asian Cricketing Giants stating that their 46.5 per cent inhabitants weren’t born when Pakistan received their final Test in Australia.

“We did some demographic analysis and 45.6% of our X followers were not born when Pakistan last won a Test in Australia in 1995. This will go up to 45.8% unless they win the Boxing Day Test,” Iceland Cricket wrote on X.

We did some demographic evaluation and 45.6% of our X followers weren’t born when Pakistan final received a Test in Australia in 1995. This will go as much as 45.8% until they win the Boxing Day Test.

— Iceland Cricket (@icelandcricket) December 17, 2023

In order to get used to the Australian circumstances, the Pakistan crew will play a two-day observe recreation in opposition to Victoria XI earlier than the Boxing Day Test in opposition to Australia on December 22 and 23.

Originally, this recreation was not part of the tour, however Pakistan made a request to rearrange the sport because of considerations about lack of observe in response to ESPNcricinfo.

This recreation will not be like a four-day Test affair in opposition to the Prime Minister’s XI, the Pakistan crew will get the chance to attempt greater than 11 gamers as it’s not a first-class recreation.

“That [the Victoria tour game] was something extra we added into the schedule because it wasn’t there earlier. We wanted to have more practice rather than only one practice game. That had first-class status, so we couldn’t give all the bowlers the chance to have a feel,” Pakistan head coach Mohammad Hafeez stated as quoted from ESPNcricinfo.

The 2nd Test match shall be performed on December 26 in Melbourne.

Australia squad: Pat Cummins (c), Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitch Marsh, Steve Smith, Mitch Starc, David Warner.

(This story has been edited by Mahaz News employees …)