{"id":451392,"date":"2026-03-01T04:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451392\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T04:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T04:22:07","slug":"pakistan-have-underperformed-says-salman-agha-after-t20-world-cup-exit-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451392\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan \u2018have underperformed\u2019 says Salman Agha after T20 World Cup exit &#8211; Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A disappointed Salman Agha said his team had \u201cunderperformed\u201d after they<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/live\/t20-worldcup-2026#1976369\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> exited the T20 World Cup<\/a> on Saturday, but held back from making an \u201cemotional\u201d decision on his future as Pakistan captain.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan were knocked out on net run rate despite beating Sri Lanka in their final Super Eights match in Kandy on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have underperformed in the whole tournament,\u201d Agha told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are out of the semis due to our failure in decision-making in pressure situations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Opener Sahibzada Farhan became the only player to score two hundreds in the same T20 World Cup as Pakistan posted 212-8.<\/p>\n<p>But they failed to restrict Sri Lanka to 147 and New Zealand went through to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFarhan was outstanding in the tournament but none of the other batters could come up to expectations,\u201d said Agha, who only managed 60 runs in seven tournament matches.<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lankan skipper Dasun Shanaka hit 76 not out off 31 balls with eight sixes as Sri Lanka scored 207-6 to lose by five runs.<\/p>\n<p>A rained-off Super Eights opener against New Zealand and a defeat to England left Pakistan needing to beat Sri Lanka by a massive margin to advance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Head coach Mike) Hesson and I take the responsibility as we selected the eleven for the matches,\u201d said Agha, who added he would not make an immediate call on whether to stand down as captain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will go back and take some time to decide,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause at this point in time, stepping down would be an emotional decision.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A disappointed Salman Agha said his team had \u201cunderperformed\u201d after they exited the T20 World Cup on Saturday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,37793,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-mens-t20-world-cup-2026","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}