Former India cricketer Madan Lal feels Pakistan would've done irreparable damage to their cricket if they had boycotted the Asia Cup 2025. The Salman Agha-led side had threatened to pull out of the tournament ahead of their fixture against the UAE after the ICC rejected their demand to remove Andy Pycroft as Match Referee from the tournament.
00:00Madanji, you've played Pakistan, you know Pakistani players, you know, people like Rameez Raja or even people like Najam Sethi or Mohsin Nakvi right now.
00:09What is their mindset? Because why would they go ahead with this, play this game of brinkmanship and then surrender?
00:17Look, the word which you have rightly used, surrender, you know, they have surrendered, you know, because their demand was not genuine.
00:23First of all, why should he shake hand with them? Our captain, it's not written in a rule book and why should they sack Andy Peckcroft?
00:35But these are the, you know, Pakistan has so many people, you know, interfering in one matter, you know, their PCB as Rahul and Nikhil knows, there is no board.
00:46You know, they just take a decision just like that. And that's not right. At international level, you have to be very, very sure when you take a decision.
00:56Number two is, is like, if you're not going to play, who's going to suffer? It's you.
01:01That is, if Pakistan was not playing today, I think, it's not damage them to their cricket, you know, that it's not damage them to their cricket, you know, and another thing which I would like to say, that is the only way they could have, the ICC and ACC could have isolated them, you know, from cricket, you know.
01:20In fact, I was thinking, I was thinking, I was thinking that they will pull out today. But I knew, Madhan Ji, I will tell you in my heart, because it's a desire to sack Pakistan, you know, it does sound a little impolite to say it, but that's the reality about Pakistan.
01:37Pakistan is a country that keeps a gun to its head and says, give me money or I'll shoot myself. And that's exactly what they seem to be doing here, Madhan Ji.
01:45Yeah, but definitely, they are like that. There's no board there. There's no, people are just, you know, look at their country, halat, you know. They are suffering for everything.
01:54You know, like, the cricketer, they had such a good, talented players. Look at now, for the last five, six years, there's no player. The team which is playing now, I'm sorry to say, they don't have any class at all.
02:08True. The way they have battered, I've never seen a Pakistani team plays like that.
02:15But, at the end of the day, you know, it reflects. When your country is not doing well, it reflects to everybody. So, it's reflecting the people also.
02:25They are struggling. Their cricket is struggling. You know, why they not walk out? Because there's a lot of money to involve in that.
02:32Correct.
02:32But, simple and straightforward, I'm telling you. They must be, they thought, yeah, how much money we missed. Yet, their thought is also like that.
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