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AFG vs ENG: Hashmatullah Shahidi backs Afghanistan batters to ‘come back stronger’
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2/25/2025
Champions Trophy 2025: In the pre-match press conference, Hashmatullah Shahidi said that Afghanistan will try and put in a better effort with the bat against England after failing against South Africa where they lost by 107 runs.
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Ashwin, in previous encounter 2003 you people have beaten England team by 69 run margin,
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how much you confidence to repeat this performance after losing first match of IC Championship?
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Sorry, which year?
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You people have won against England in 2023 World Cup with 69 runs, how much you confidence
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to repeat this performance after losing first match against South Africa 106 runs?
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First of all I feel that you said 2003, we were not playing in 2003.
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Yeah, in 2023 we had a good game against England and we beat them, we have that confidence
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with us but that's part of the history and now we have to go to ground with the new mindset
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and with the new planning.
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I think we all know that England is one of the best teams, so it's a tough challenge
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for us but we are ready for any kind of challenge and we worked hard to achieve, to reach to
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this level and we are ready to play every game in a positive way and Inshallah we will
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take that confidence with us, what happened in 2023 World Cup but at the same time tomorrow
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is new day and we will try our best to beat them again.
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Hello, my question is Afanisan doing well in last few years, before start the champion
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trophy most of the expert predicted that Afanisan will play the semi final, do expert opinion
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gives you more confidence or pressure?
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Yeah, it feels good when legends and cricket experts talking positive about you and your
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team so that gives you confidence but at the same time if someone talk and say that doesn't
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mean that we will, if they say we qualify for semi final we have to work hard for that
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in the ground so as I said there are quality teams in this champion trophy and top world
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top 8 ranked teams so it's tough challenge for facing each other so yeah these things
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give us confidence but at the same time we have to work hard in the ground and we have
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to give our 100% and we have to play best cricket on the day if we want to beat these
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teams.
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Thank you, Hashmat Zain from Agence France-Presse, before tomorrow's match around dozens of British
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politicians has called English cricket board to boycott tomorrow's match, how do you see
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this call and does such calls affect your own field performances as well?
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As I said in the last press also that we are cricket players, we are sports persons, sports
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men so what we control is we control what we can do in the ground, inside the ground
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so we don't worry about what happening out of the ground and that not can do anything
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with our confidence, we play hard, we work hard, we have good net sessions, so that's
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what we are thinking of and we only can do what we can do in the ground.
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Hashmat, do you feel after the way the game against South Africa went that the best template
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for Afghanistan to be successful is batting first regardless of whether the deal is a
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factor?
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I think when we bate first that give us more chance but at the same time we beat teams
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in the last World Cup also batting second and after that in the series also but in South
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Africa game I think that the wicket was little bit supportive for the fast balling and there
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was no, when our spinners were balling there was no support for them, I didn't even see
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one ball turning so we didn't play well, especially in batting we didn't start really
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well first 20 hours so at the same time it was no, it's not an excuse but the way world
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knows that we have good spinners, I didn't see any support there but hopefully we have
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some support in tomorrow's game for our spinners.
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Hashmat, legendary Younes Khan is your mentor, so how it is beneficial for your team?
05:17
Yeah, it's more beneficial because Younes Khan is a legend and he played a lot of international
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cricket and he's as a mentor with us so every player listen to him and the person, the pupils
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like Younes Khan if he say one word to you that one word can change your game so he's
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a mentor, he just working with us on our mindset and yeah everyone listen to him and
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hopefully that works because he know this condition, Pakistan condition, he played a
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lot so about the ground and pitches also we give advice from him and hopefully that works
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for us.
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Can I ask a question in Pashto?
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Yes please.
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It is said that your spin try, because England's recent performances even against India, spin
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against them is very weak, so your spin try Rashid Nabi and Noor Ahmad, what do you expect
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from them in tomorrow's match?
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We don't expect them to perform well in Afghanistan, so we hope that tomorrow's wicket will be good
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for spinning, you saw that England team struggle with spin and our spinners are very good,
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so we hope that they will support us in the wicket, as you said that England didn't perform
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very well in the last series, but here in the Champions Trophy every team is the same team
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and they achieved and England won the World Championship in 2019 World Cup, so we won't
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take it easy and we will try to fight from the first to the last ball and we won the
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match in the last two World Cups and we will try to win the Champions Trophy again.
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The ICC have said they are going to up their support for the exiled Afghan women's team,
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they are going to try and get them playing on the international stage, is that something
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that you and the men's team would support?
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Would you like to see the Afghan women's team playing?
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Everyone likes to see everyone play, and as I said before to the other person, I think
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when it comes to politics and those things which we cannot control, so we are only cricket
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players, we can control things in the ground and we belong to the ground and we are always
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trying to give our best when we play.
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Do you have a message for the women's team?
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I think if you look at the past,
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we did well
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as a betting unit.
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That's why we achieved.
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And
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everyone knows
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that we have quality spinners,
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but one department, only spinners
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cannot win games, especially when it
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comes to the big teams.
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So I believe that we did
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really well in the recent past as a
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betting unit, but
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in the last game,
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in the South Africa game,
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the way we
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expect as a team
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from our betting lineup,
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we didn't play that way.
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So
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I believe that still we have a
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good betting unit and we have
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quality players when it comes to betting.
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So right now
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we have two more games and we have
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a big chance to win those games.
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And I believe in this condition
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our betting will come
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back stronger and will be
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effective for the
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next two games, Inshallah.
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