Beating Pakistan is Zimbabwe’s greatest victory, says Sikandar Raza

“Since I have been part of Zimbabwe cricket, I would rate that the best victory we have ever had,” Player of the Match Raza stated throughout the post-match press convention. “There is not any higher stage, that is the World Cup, the most important stage of all, and to beat Pakistan by one run, (defending) a modest complete, you will must do every little thing proper to defend that which we did, so that’s in all probability the perfect victory I’ve been a part of with Zimbabwe.

“I am going to have this conversation with the head coach,” Raza stated with a smile. “I am going to ask him which victory was better, 1983 or 2022. I will let him answer that.” Raza hoped that wins equivalent to this one would encourage extra folks to take up the sport as a sustainable profession choice again residence in Zimbabwe.

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“We have loads of kids selecting up this sport again residence. Loads of mother and father are accepting that their youngsters can have a future on this sport. I really feel this group of gamers has an added accountability to verify cricket grows in Zimbabwe. We at all times discuss that Zimbabwe has a really small pool of gamers however that’s perhaps as a result of not many are taking over this sport.

“We want to make sure that this group of boys can achieve and encourage something, where not just players but their families, everybody, can truly believe that there is a future in the sport and raise the flag high.” Like Ireland’s win over England opened up the Super 12 Group 1, Zimbabwe’s win over Pakistan had carried out the identical in Group 2, Raza stated, however added that they weren’t waiting for the semis already.

“We are going to take one recreation at a time, however we’ve got opened up the group for everybody. Basically anybody who performs good cricket can win. You by no means know the place Zimbabwe will find yourself.

“The Irish boys did that as well to the other group. Zimbabwe have really got the chance to achieve something. I am not going to start thinking about the semi-final. I am going to look at one game at a time, look at Bangladesh and take it from there.”