Former India spinner Harbhajan Singh has taken a shot at former Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Najam Sethi for questioning whether India is afraid of playing and losing to arch-rivals Pakistan after he took a dig at BCCI secretary Jay Shah.
The remaining matches of Asia Cup 2023 will be played in Colombo and the weather forecast for the coming matches doesn’t look promising with rain expected to play spoilsport.
The Asia Cup was earlier scheduled to be held completely in Pakistan but the BCCI refused to travel to the neighbouring country citing denial of permission from the Indian government.
As a result, Shah, who is also the ACC president, after discussing with other board members, agreed upon a hybrid model with the majority of matches to be played in Sri Lanka.
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On Wednesday, Sethi posted on X (formerly Twitter): “BCCI/ACC informed PCB today that they had decided to shift next India-Pak match from Colombo to Hambantota because of rain forecasts. Within one hour they changed their mind and announced Colombo as the venue. What’s going on? Is India afraid to play and lose to Pakistan Look at the rain forecast!”
Harbhajan lashed out at Najam and made a bold statement.
“Don’t know what Najam Sethi is smoking nowadays. I don’t know how is he saying that they were the favourites or India does not want to play Pakistan,” Harbhajan Singh said on Sports Today.
The legendary cricketer said it was a baseless statement from Sethi and said that Team India is never scared to play anyone.
“Please someone give him the whole record where India have beaten them more number of times whenever they have played against each other. This is baseless kind of a thing for him, with the kind of stature that he holds at this moment for Pakistan cricket. He says, India does not want to play Pakistan because India is scared. India is never scared to play anyone. Don’t know where this is coming from. They needed to sit with the Asian Cricket Council and see where the tournament is going to be held,” he added.
He further challenged Sethi and said India will beat Pakistan wherever he wants.
“Whether the weather forecast was right or not. Boss, come and play us wherever you want, we will beat you,” he said.
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