T20 WC: UAE release all-rounder due to disciplinary issues before opener

NEW DELHI: The Emirates Cricket Board (ECB) announced connected Monday that all-rounder Muhammad Zohaib has been sent backmost from the squad owed to disciplinary issues but did not stock much details connected the matter.

"Muhammad Zohaib has been sent backmost owed to disciplinary issues. More details volition beryllium provided successful owed course. ECB volition astatine this signifier not marque immoderate further remark connected the matter," the committee said successful a statement.

Meanwhile, UAE skipper Muhammad Waseem made it wide that tensions astir India-Pakistan matches bash not impact his squad up of their opening crippled successful the T20 World Cup against New Zealand connected Tuesday. He stressed that the UAE squad is agreed careless of nationality. "No, to beryllium honest, determination is nary India-Pakistan. We are playing for the UAE and we are ever treating ourselves similar a family," Waseem said. He added, "We are surviving similar a family, friends. We are spending clip together, eating together. There is nary Indian-Pakistani successful the UAE squad to beryllium honest."Waseem besides praised Indian caput manager Lalchand Rajput, who joined the squad successful 2024. He said Rajput’s acquisition has helped the players recognize conditions better.

"He has truthful overmuch acquisition astir India. He is moving with the boys; helium is telling everything astir the pitches and the different things. So it helped america a batch and we are moving connected that and inshallah you volition spot time the aforesaid things helium told to boys," helium added.Looking up to their lucifer against New Zealand, Waseem said UAE would instrumentality assurance from their historical triumph implicit the Black Caps successful 2023. "Our strategy is precise simple. We bushed them earlier successful UAE but this clip it's a antithetic venue, antithetic tournament, antithetic ground, and antithetic crippled also," helium said. "So we came with the different program close now… we prepared ourselves similar a champion team. So inshallah, we volition effort to play a bully cricket against them tomorrow."He besides said the squad is good prepared, adding, "Yeah, mentation is going precise bully to beryllium honest… we came present with a antithetic mindset and mentality. So you volition spot time the mode boys volition play."