Champions Trophy 2025: In the pre-match press conference, Hashmatullah Shahidi said that Afghanistan will try and put in a better effort with the bat against England after failing against South Africa where they lost by 107 runs.
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00:00Ashwin, in previous encounter 2003 you people have beaten England team by 69 run margin,
00:07how much you confidence to repeat this performance after losing first match of IC Championship?
00:12Sorry, which year?
00:14You people have won against England in 2023 World Cup with 69 runs, how much you confidence
00:23to repeat this performance after losing first match against South Africa 106 runs?
00:30First of all I feel that you said 2003, we were not playing in 2003.
00:35Yeah, in 2023 we had a good game against England and we beat them, we have that confidence
00:43with us but that's part of the history and now we have to go to ground with the new mindset
00:52and with the new planning.
00:53I think we all know that England is one of the best teams, so it's a tough challenge
01:01for us but we are ready for any kind of challenge and we worked hard to achieve, to reach to
01:10this level and we are ready to play every game in a positive way and Inshallah we will
01:18take that confidence with us, what happened in 2023 World Cup but at the same time tomorrow
01:26is new day and we will try our best to beat them again.
01:30Hello, my question is Afanisan doing well in last few years, before start the champion
01:40trophy most of the expert predicted that Afanisan will play the semi final, do expert opinion
01:48gives you more confidence or pressure?
01:51Yeah, it feels good when legends and cricket experts talking positive about you and your
02:01team so that gives you confidence but at the same time if someone talk and say that doesn't
02:09mean that we will, if they say we qualify for semi final we have to work hard for that
02:14in the ground so as I said there are quality teams in this champion trophy and top world
02:23top 8 ranked teams so it's tough challenge for facing each other so yeah these things
02:33give us confidence but at the same time we have to work hard in the ground and we have
02:37to give our 100% and we have to play best cricket on the day if we want to beat these
02:45teams.
02:46Thank you, Hashmat Zain from Agence France-Presse, before tomorrow's match around dozens of British
02:54politicians has called English cricket board to boycott tomorrow's match, how do you see
03:03this call and does such calls affect your own field performances as well?
03:14As I said in the last press also that we are cricket players, we are sports persons, sports
03:20men so what we control is we control what we can do in the ground, inside the ground
03:27so we don't worry about what happening out of the ground and that not can do anything
03:37with our confidence, we play hard, we work hard, we have good net sessions, so that's
03:45what we are thinking of and we only can do what we can do in the ground.
03:51Hashmat, do you feel after the way the game against South Africa went that the best template
04:02for Afghanistan to be successful is batting first regardless of whether the deal is a
04:07factor?
04:09I think when we bate first that give us more chance but at the same time we beat teams
04:18in the last World Cup also batting second and after that in the series also but in South
04:27Africa game I think that the wicket was little bit supportive for the fast balling and there
04:32was no, when our spinners were balling there was no support for them, I didn't even see
04:39one ball turning so we didn't play well, especially in batting we didn't start really
04:48well first 20 hours so at the same time it was no, it's not an excuse but the way world
05:00knows that we have good spinners, I didn't see any support there but hopefully we have
05:06some support in tomorrow's game for our spinners.
05:10Hashmat, legendary Younes Khan is your mentor, so how it is beneficial for your team?
05:17Yeah, it's more beneficial because Younes Khan is a legend and he played a lot of international
05:26cricket and he's as a mentor with us so every player listen to him and the person, the pupils
05:38like Younes Khan if he say one word to you that one word can change your game so he's
05:45a mentor, he just working with us on our mindset and yeah everyone listen to him and
05:54hopefully that works because he know this condition, Pakistan condition, he played a
05:59lot so about the ground and pitches also we give advice from him and hopefully that works
06:05for us.
06:10Can I ask a question in Pashto?
06:12Yes please.
06:13It is said that your spin try, because England's recent performances even against India, spin
06:21against them is very weak, so your spin try Rashid Nabi and Noor Ahmad, what do you expect
06:28from them in tomorrow's match?
06:31We don't expect them to perform well in Afghanistan, so we hope that tomorrow's wicket will be good
06:45for spinning, you saw that England team struggle with spin and our spinners are very good,
06:56so we hope that they will support us in the wicket, as you said that England didn't perform
07:04very well in the last series, but here in the Champions Trophy every team is the same team
07:12and they achieved and England won the World Championship in 2019 World Cup, so we won't
07:22take it easy and we will try to fight from the first to the last ball and we won the
07:28match in the last two World Cups and we will try to win the Champions Trophy again.
07:40The ICC have said they are going to up their support for the exiled Afghan women's team,
07:46they are going to try and get them playing on the international stage, is that something
07:51that you and the men's team would support?
07:55Would you like to see the Afghan women's team playing?
07:57Everyone likes to see everyone play, and as I said before to the other person, I think
08:09when it comes to politics and those things which we cannot control, so we are only cricket
08:15players, we can control things in the ground and we belong to the ground and we are always
08:21trying to give our best when we play.
08:25Do you have a message for the women's team?
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10:51I think if you look at the past,
10:53we did well
10:55as a betting unit.
10:57That's why we achieved.
10:59And
11:01everyone knows
11:03that we have quality spinners,
11:05but one department, only spinners
11:07cannot win games, especially when it
11:09comes to the big teams.
11:11So I believe that we did
11:13really well in the recent past as a
11:15betting unit, but
11:17in the last game,
11:19in the South Africa game,
11:21the way we
11:23expect as a team
11:25from our betting lineup,
11:27we didn't play that way.
11:29So
11:31I believe that still we have a
11:33good betting unit and we have
11:35quality players when it comes to betting.
11:37So right now
11:39we have two more games and we have
11:41a big chance to win those games.
11:43And I believe in this condition
11:45our betting will come
11:47back stronger and will be
11:49effective for the
11:51next two games, Inshallah.