Afghanistan captain Mohammad Nabi slammed a Pakistani journalist who tried to get him to answer related Taliban take over of the Afghan government and relations with Pakistan after the team’s clash against Pakistan in the T20 World Cup.
Nabi at first asked him politely to ask questions related only to cricket and the Afghanistan team, but the journalist still tried to play smart and asked the same question in a different tone.
The Journalist, Mohammad Idris, asked, “Nabi, do you have any kind of pressure or fears that the new regime might ask you difficult questions when you go back home and the second one, in the new era of the Afghan regime, relations are better with Pakistan now, so can we expect that Afghan cricket would benefit from that?”
Nabi, seemingly not pleased with the effort from the Pakistani scribe said in chaste Urdu, “Our team has prepared very well for this World Cup and is here to participate in it and win matches. Let other issues stay where they are and please ask me questions related to my team’s performances and preparations.”
As far as the game was concerned, the Afghan team remained in it till the 18th over and almost had the upper edge with 24 required from two overs and two new batters in Shadab Khan and Asif Ali at the crease. However, Asif had other ideas and he muscled four sixes in one over, the 19th, bowled by Karim Janat to take his team to the third straight win of this World Cup.