T20 World Cup | 'Role models don't do this' - Agha on India not touring Pak, handshake row

New Delhi: Ahead of the T20 World Cup which begins connected February 7, Pakistan skipper Salman Ali Agha has criticised India for their determination to not shingle hands with them during the Asia Cup past year. Going into the ICC tourney now, Pakistan authorities has announced that their nationalist squad volition boycott the radical signifier contention against the Suryakumar Yadav-led broadside connected February 15 successful Colombo.Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif connected Wednesday said the boycott was a mode of showing solidarity with Bangladesh aft they were removed from the World Cup. Bangladesh Cricket Board had refused to play successful India owed to information reasons and wanted their games moved to Sri Lanka but the ICC dismissed those concerns.

"We don't truly consciousness wounded oregon thing similar that. But, yeah, for the crippled is not good. I tin accidental that with my thorax open.

For the game, these things evidently should not happen. And me, increasing up arsenic a kid, ever person seen radical doing what required for the crippled to beryllium improved. And I deliberation by doing that, we, to immoderate extent, we are relation models. We don't bash that," said Salman connected the eve of their T20 World Cup opener against the Netherlands."Because if you bash that, past kids are going to prime up this and time they are going to bash the aforesaid things.

So, I deliberation these things should not happen. Because if you deliberation relation models, I deliberation relation models don't bash this stuff," helium added.During the Asia Cup successful the UAE past year, India bushed Pakistan successful each 3 matches betwixt the arch-rivals, including the final, but the contests were marred by controversy. In the radical signifier crippled successful Dubai, the Indian cricket squad walked disconnected the tract without the customary handshakes with their opponents.After the final, India refused to instrumentality the trophy from the PCB and existent Asian Cricket Council main Mohsin Naqvi. That standoff resulted successful India yet to beryllium reconciled with the silverware.

"I'm not conscionable a Pakistan captain, I'm a cricket fan. If a kid is watching successful India oregon Pakistan, we're not sending them a bully message. People deliberation of america arsenic relation models, but if we're behaving similar this, we're not inspiring them. What happened shouldn't person happened, but you should inquire the radical (India) liable for this alternatively than me," Agha had said astatine the time.With Pakistan tentatively not playing India successful Group A of the T20 World Cup, they mightiness person to triumph each 3 matches against the Netherlands, USA and Namibia to progress. Salman denied that this determination puts added unit connected them adjacent though it means zero points and a important stroke to the nett tally rate."We request to beryllium cautious and bring our A-game," Agha said portion admitting Pakistan person constricted acquisition of the Netherlands and "don't cognize many" of their players."We mean to unleash each our rotation options due to the fact that we consciousness they are susceptible against prime spin.""No, determination is nary unit astatine each due to the fact that whenever you travel to an ICC tournament, you person to triumph astir each of your games. And erstwhile we came here, we thought that we volition triumph each the games and springiness our champion successful each the games. In the aforesaid way, we volition effort to springiness our champion successful the games that we play," said the Pakistan skipper.Pakistan travel into the T20 World Cup connected a precocious aft beating Australia 3-0 astatine home. After the crippled against Netherlands connected Saturday, they play USA (February 10), tentatively India (February 15) and Namibia (February 18).