Afghanistan planning triangular series with Pakistan next month
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00:00Pakistan, Afghanistan and another team is likely to play in the Triangular Series next month.
00:07And in this regard, the Afghanistan Cricket Board has prepared its plan, and talks with the Pakistan Cricket Board have also begun.
00:16The Afghanistan Cricket Team, which recently set a new date in the T20 World Cup 2024,
00:23was once honored to reach the semifinals of an ICC event.
00:29Now he is ready to take his cricket to the next level.
00:33Now he wants his players to be as groomed as the other top teams.
00:39Afghanistan has already qualified for the semifinals and has been counted among the top teams.
00:46The top leaders of the Afghanistan Cricket Board, especially their cricket chairman Mirvaz Ashraf and CEO Naseeb Khan,
00:55have prepared a lot of plans for the ICC events.
01:01They are trying to get their team ready for a one-day format before the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
01:09For this, not only New Zealand, but also South Africa and West Indies are talking about playing the Bahami Series with them before the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
01:21Along with this, the Pakistan Cricket Board and the UAE Cricket Board have prepared a plan
01:28that a Triangular Series will be held there next month, i.e. in August, which is a one-day format,
01:35so that their new players can get a chance to come to the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 or their main team after that.
01:43These will be youth teams, i.e. in which you can say that they will be in a team.
01:49Just like Pakistan Shines is currently touring Australia,
01:54the Afghanistan Cricket Board has also decided to make its youth team.
01:59It is already made, but it has been planned to give it a proper chance, a proper series and a proper tour.
02:07Along with this, they are also talking to Bangladesh and Zimbabwe so that their A-team can tour these two countries.
02:15So this is the situation, the Afghanistan Cricket Board has planned to complete its preparations before the ICC Champions Trophy 2025.
02:24On the other hand, unfortunately, the Pakistan Cricket Board did not do as much work as it should have.
02:32Although there are a lot of white ball series after Pakistan's November,
02:36Pakistan has three one-day matches and three T20s in Australia.
02:40And along with that, there are as many T20s and one-day matches in Zimbabwe.
02:44And apart from this, Pakistan will also play a white ball series in South Africa,
02:49in which three one-day and three T20 matches will be included.
02:52And after playing two test matches in Pakistan,
02:55a triangular series will also be played here, in which teams from New Zealand and South Africa will participate.
03:01But at present, there is no such activity in the next three to four months of Pakistan,
03:06which can be used to set a combination of white balls and determine major decisions in this regard.
03:13At present, where the Pakistan team was playing badly in the Asia Cup 2023 and the World Cup 2023,
03:20Pakistan has not played a single one-day match.
03:24And in this regard, there is also a question mark on Baba Azam,
03:28whether he will continue as a captain or not.
03:32So these are all things because of which, if you look at it,
03:36the Afghanistan Cricket Board is smarter than Pakistan.
03:39He is trying harder to give his players better opportunities and groom them.
03:44In contrast, the Pakistan Cricket Board, where it has been seen for the past year and a half or so,
03:50that there is a musical chair, the chairmen are changing the PCB again and again,
03:54the selection committee is changing again and again, the selectors are changing again and again,
03:58the captains are changing again and again.
04:00So because of this, the Pakistan Cricket Board or the Pakistan Cricket Team is struggling.
04:05But despite this, the hope and prayer is that the Pakistan team,
04:10despite these difficult circumstances, will once again be successful in bringing itself on the track of conquests.