{"id":14280,"date":"2022-11-08T11:07:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/08\/pak-vs-nz-live-ricky-ponting-picks-shaheen-afridi-as-key-to-pakistans-world-cup-success\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:07:08","slug":"pak-vs-nz-live-ricky-ponting-picks-shaheen-afridi-as-key-to-pakistans-world-cup-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/08\/pak-vs-nz-live-ricky-ponting-picks-shaheen-afridi-as-key-to-pakistans-world-cup-success\/","title":{"rendered":"PAK vs NZ LIVE: Ricky Ponting picks Shaheen Afridi as key to Pakistan&#8217;s World Cup success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>PAK vs NZ LIVE: Ricky Ponting on Shaheen Afridi \u2013 Australian legend Ricky Ponting has declared pacer Shaheen Afridi because the participant\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>PAK vs NZ LIVE:<\/strong> <strong>Ricky Ponting on Shaheen Afridi \u2013<\/strong> Australian legend Ricky Ponting has declared pacer Shaheen Afridi because the participant that should hearth if Pakistan is to clinch a second ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup crown in Australia. Afridi produced his finest efficiency within the match to this point with the ball when he completed with a determine of 4-22 in opposition to Bangladesh on Sunday and that spell helped Pakistan earn the ultimate spot within the semi-finals of the match. <strong>Follow Pakistan vs NewZealand &amp; ICC T20 World CUP 2022 LIVE Updates with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidesport.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InsideSport.IN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>PAK vs NZ LIVE: Ricky Ponting picks Shaheen Afridi as key to Pakistan\u2019s World Cup success, says \u2018Even at 90%, he will have more impact on field\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan will meet in-form New Zealand awaiting them on the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Wednesday and the Australia nice Ponting mentioned Afridi is the important thing participant in that occasion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHe might say that he\u2019s not back to 100 percent just yet, but from what I\u2019ve seen it looks like he\u2019s going along beautifully and he now holds the key for Pakistan progressing in the tournament,\u201d<\/strong> ICC quoted Ponting as saying.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-2    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p>Afridi\u2019s wicketless efficiency in Pakistan\u2019s first two T20 World Cup matches in opposition to India and Zimbabwe might have forged some doubt on his potential to rapidly get better, however Ponting at all times had religion within the left-handed pacer\u2019s skills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c(I never had any doubt) as you just know what he\u2019s capable of when he\u2019s out there on the field. And as I said, even if he\u2019s not at 100 per cent, if he\u2019s operating at 90 per cent, he\u2019s still going to have more of an impact on games than most because of how good he is. So look, he might have had a few worries in the back of his own mind and the Pakistan hierarchy and coaching group might have had a few worries in their mind, but not anymore. He\u2019s got through really well so far and hopefully for them two more games to go,\u201d<\/strong> Ponting mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>Ponting mentioned Afridi\u2019s resurgence was just like how Indian celebrity Virat Kohli had abruptly discovered his kind in Australia and mentioned that typically you merely need to place confidence in one of the best gamers to ship on the largest levels.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"scaip scaip-3    \">\n\t\t<\/aside>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s almost a bit like the India scenario with Virat (Kohli) coming into this tournament. Sometimes you just have to stick with them and pick them and let them go because champion players will find a way to get the job done. And as the tournament\u2019s gone on he (Afridi) has got better and better and hopefully the best is still to come,\u201d<\/strong> Pointing additional added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>PAK vs NZ LIVE: Ricky Ponting picks Shaheen Afridi as key to Pakistan\u2019s World Cup success, says \u2018Even at 90%, he will have more impact on field\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Pakistan vs NewZealand &amp; ICC T20 World CUP 2022 LIVE Updates with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidesport.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">InsideSport.IN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] PAK vs NZ LIVE: Ricky Ponting on Shaheen Afridi \u2013 Australian legend Ricky Ponting has declared pacer Shaheen Afridi because the participant\u2026 PAK vs NZ LIVE: Ricky Ponting on Shaheen Afridi \u2013 Australian legend Ricky Ponting has declared pacer Shaheen Afridi because the participant that should hearth if Pakistan is to clinch a second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}