Ex-Pakistan cricketers and journalists haven't held themselves back from criticising Mohammad Rizwan and co. after their Champions Trophy 2025 campaign that ended on a winless note. Nevertheless, an anchor named Tabish Hashmi brutally mocked Rizwan's English and Ahmad Shehzad, one of the ex-players present on the panel, burst out laughing as a video of the same surfaced on social media.
With Pakistan losing to New Zealand and India to follow with a washout against Bangladesh, many have mocked Rizwan over the phrase 'Ya to win hai, ya learn hai' as the keeper-batter has repeated it quite frequently. Hashmi said on the show 'Haarna mana hai':
"He represents 25 crore people. We want our representative to speak well, look well, say sensible things, play fearless cricket with honesty. When I watch my captain Mohammad Rizwan in press conferences, I'm not saying he should speak in English. He can talk in Urdu but he should make some sense. What is this 'sometimes you win, or you learn. Sometimes it's cramp, sometimes it's acting."
"We wanted to do well and perform well in front of our nation" - Mohammad Rizwan
With Pakistan's game against Bangladesh on Thursday in Rawalpindi washing out, Rizwan cited the injury to Saim Ayub as a massive factor. However, the 32-year-old stated that he doesn't want to give any excuses for their poor performances and vows to learn from this. He said, as quoted by the ICC:
"We wanted to do well and perform well in front of our nation. The expectations are very high. We didn't perform well and it is disappointing for us. The guy who has been performing for the last few months in Australia, South Africa, Zimbabwe… the team was combined and then suddenly when someone is injured, the team will be disturbed. As a captain, you can look forward to that as well. One side you can say that the team is disturbed, but this is no excuse. Yes, Fakhar Zaman and Saim Ayub were injured, but we will learn from this."
