{"id":40675,"date":"2026-02-17T12:04:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40675"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:04:30","slug":"tariq-confident-of-pakistan-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=40675","title":{"rendered":"Tariq confident of Pakistan comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"
Spinner Usman Tariq said Tuesday he was confident that Pakistan can bounce back from their T20 World Cup drubbing against India and seal qualification for the next round.<\/p>\n

India’s 61-run romp means Pakistan must beat Namibia in their final match in Colombo on Wednesday to qualify for the Super Eights.<\/p>\n

A defeat would eliminate Pakistan, who are third behind the USA on net run rate in Group A.<\/p>\n

It would also leave an outside chance for the Netherlands to qualify, but they would need a big win over co-hosts India in Ahmedabad on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

“Lifting the team is only difficult when you don’t work on your mistakes committed in the last game,” Tariq told reporters.<\/p>\n

“We have worked on our mistakes so I think it will not be a tough task.<\/p>\n

“We have a resolve not to commit the same mistakes again.”<\/p>\n

Pakistan were criticised for asking India to bat then folding meekly for 114 in 18 overs chasing a stiff 176 target.<\/p>\n

“We can feel their (fans’) disappointment because the match is watched by the whole nation,” Tariq said.<\/p>\n

“So we feel their pain but I am sure when we play them (India) next we will put up a better show.”<\/p>\n

Tariq dismissed rumours that batting star Babar Azam and pace spearhead Shaheen Shah Afridi could be dropped against Namibia after poor performances against India.<\/p>\n

“Both Azam and Shaheen have won many matches for Pakistan so if they did not perform well in one game we should not write them off,” said Tariq.<\/p>\n

Pakistan have faced Namibia only once before in a T20 international.<\/p>\n

“Whoever we play we have the confidence to beat them and our goal is to play the final and win the cup which we will try our best to achieve.”<\/p>\n

Namibia have lost all three of their group matches.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spinner Usman Tariq said Tuesday he was confident that Pakistan can bounce back from their T20 World Cup drubbing against India and seal qualification for the next round. India’s 61-run romp means Pakistan must beat Namibia in their final match in Colombo on Wednesday to qualify for the Super Eights. A defeat would eliminate Pakistan, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}