Shoaib Malik without farewell end for ODI World Cup 2019. Pakistan went with an unaltered playing XI in their last gathering round of the World Cup against Bangladesh at Lord’s in London on Friday. An unaltered group implied veteran all-rounder Shoaib Malik did not get a chance to play a “farewell” one-day worldwide match.
Shoaib Malik had been sidelined since his duck in the match against India on June sixteenth. The 36-year-old who had reported he would resign from white-ball cricket toward the finish of World Cup just figured out how to score eight runs incorporating two ducks in the three innings.
As per group sources, Shoaib Malik had said he wanted for his last World Cup to be recognized as a brilliant goodbye, however it is clear since his match against India was the last one, where he got expelled on a nothing—barely a goodbye any batsman would have wanted.source by geo tv
2019 World Cup will be the last tournament of my ODI career and hopefully the team will succeed,” Malik had told reporters in Lahore at a press conference last year. He said he would continue to play T20 cricket after the end of his ODI career.
But Shoaib Malik failed, overall, to contribute to the Pakistan team’s performance in the World Cup 2019 campaign, as his inclusion was justified by his experience.
Since the beginning of 2018, Malik has shown a visible decline in his performances as he scored only three half-centuries in the last 30 ODIs, scoring 608 runs at an average of 25.33.
In his vast career of 287 ODIs, Malik has scored 7,534 runs, fetched nine centuries, 44 half-centuries, and taking 156 wickets, and 96 catches. Over time, he remained a very dominant and known part of the Pakistan cricket team owing to him being an all-rounder.
After an unforgivable performance in the World Cup 2019, it was highly unlikely that Malik would be included in any of the remaining matches for Pakistan.
He played his last ODI match against India on June 16.
