cricketUpdated: Jul 23, 2020 11:14 ISTFormer batsman Aamer Sohail has revealed how the team management made a mistake in including Shahid Afridi as an opener in Pakistan’s squad for the 1999 World Cup, claiming the all-rounder back then could ‘neither bowl nor bat’. Despite reaching the final of the 1999 World Cup, Sohail reckons Pakistan played like a ‘local team’, and that things could have been a lot different had the management been a little more sorted with their decision. “So, according to me there were two reasons for your loss at the World Cup. “Before the World Cup final, there were reports that it had rained a lot in London. “Salim Malik told me that Wasim Akram had said that we would definitely bowl first after winning the toss.

Source: Hindustan Times July 23, 2020 03:22 UTC