Haris Rauf gives no-nonsense reply to journalists’ ‘Zimbabwe halki team hai’ remark
Haris Rauf (Image Credit: Twitter)
Pakistan is in a spot of bother after losing to India and Zimbabwe in the ongoing 20-20 World Cup 2022. Notably, the 2009 winners were expected to win against Zimbabwe. However, the Southern African turned the table and registered a famous victory. Now, the Asian teams need to win their remaining games and hope for other matches’ results to go their way.
Meanwhile, ahead of the Pakistan-Netherlands game, pacer Haris Rauf spoke to the media. A journalist asked the pacer about how the team will play against a ‘weak’ opposition like the Netherlands if they can’t win against a ‘weak’ Zimbabwe team.
“Haris, Zimbabwe bhi halki team hai, aur Netherlands bhi. Kadr se, ranking me. Zaahir hai, unko relax liya aur 130 bhi nahi ho saka. Netherlands ke khilaaf kis tarah se khelenge? Ruthless cricket khelenge? (Zimbabwe isn’t a strong team, neither is Netherlands, in terms of ranking. Pakistan relaxed a little and we couldn’t even score 130. How will you take on the game against Netherlands?),” the reporter asked.
No team is weak in the World Cup: Haris Rauf
“Dekhein aapne baat ki, Zimbabwe halki team hai. Koi bhi tournament khelne aaye, vo halka nahi hota. Koi bhi international game khel rahe hain, vo bhi ussi mindset se aaye hain ki hamein World Cup jeetna hai. Ham kisi ko halka nahi keh sakte, ya ye nahi keh sakte ki vo achhi team hai ya nahi hai. (See, you said that Zimbabwe isn’t a strong team. It’s not like that. We are playing an internaitonal match, and everyone has come with a mindset to win the World Cup. We can’t take anyone lightly, we can’t say that this team is good or this team isn’t),” Haris stated.
“Netherlands ya Zimbabwe se match ho, ya kisi se bhi ho, ham apna 100 percent dene ki koshish karte hain. Unfortunately, results hamaare favour me nahi the. Zimbabwe jeeti, vo achha khele. Agle match jiske saath bhi hain, ham apna best denge. (Whether it’s Netherlands or Zimbabwe or anyone, we have to give our 100 percent. Unfortunately, the result wasn’t in our favour against Zimbabwe, they played well. But we will give our best in upcoming matches),” the Pakistan fast bowler further said.
