{"id":7677,"date":"2026-02-28T19:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7677"},"modified":"2026-02-28T19:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T19:03:47","slug":"pakistan-have-underperformed-says-salman-agha-after-t20-world-cup-exit-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=7677","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan \u2018have underperformed\u2019 says Salman Agha after T20 World Cup exit &#8211; Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2026\/03\/01000107dbad0b4.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>A disappointed Salman Agha said his team had \u201cunderperformed\u201d after they<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/live\/t20-worldcup-2026#1976369\"> exited the T20 World Cup<\/a> on Saturday, but held back from making an \u201cemotional\u201d decision on his future as Pakistan captain.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan were knocked out on net run rate despite beating Sri Lanka in their final Super Eights match in Kandy on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have underperformed in the whole tournament,\u201d Agha told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are out of the semis due to our failure in decision-making in pressure situations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Opener Sahibzada Farhan became the only player to score two hundreds in the same T20 World Cup as Pakistan posted 212-8.<\/p>\n<p>But they failed to restrict Sri Lanka to 147 and New Zealand went through to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarhan was outstanding in the tournament but none of the other batters could come up to expectations,\u201d said Agha, who only managed 60 runs in seven tournament matches.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan skipper Dasun Shanaka hit 76 not out off 31 balls with eight sixes as Sri Lanka scored 207-6 to lose by five runs.<\/p>\n<p>A rained-off Super Eights opener against New Zealand and a defeat to England left Pakistan needing to beat Sri Lanka by a massive margin to advance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Head coach Mike) Hesson and I take the responsibility as we selected the eleven for the matches,\u201d said Agha, who added he would not make an immediate call on whether to stand down as captain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will go back and take some time to decide,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause at this point in time, stepping down would be an emotional decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1976671\/pakistan-have-underperformed-says-salman-agha-after-t20-world-cup-exit\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A disappointed Salman Agha said his team had \u201cunderperformed\u201d after they exited the T20 World Cup on Saturday, but held back from making an \u201cemotional\u201d decision&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertaonment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}