Asia Cup 2023: Harbhajan Singh slams Najam Sethi on ‘weather’ tweet

The league stage high-voltage match between India and Pakistan was washed out due to rain in the ongoing Asia Cup. Now, there is another chance that the Super Four stage match between the arch-rivals is likely to be washed out again.

Former PCB Managing Committee Chairman Najam Sethi, who was in charge during the Asia Cup schedule announcement, has expressed his dissatisfaction with the situation in Sri Lanka. Following the decision to keep all games in Colombo, Sethi took another dig at the BCCI as heavy rain is predicted in the region in coming days.

“BCCI/ACC informed PCB today that they had decided to shift next India-Pak match from Colombo to Hambantota because of rain forecasts. Within one hour they changed their mind and announced Colombo as the venue. What’s going on? Is India afraid to play and lose to Pakistan Look at the rain forecast!” Sethi posted on X (formerly Twitter) in response to the situation.

However, in his reaction to Sethi’s remark, former Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh vehemently criticised Sethi for insinuating that India is afraid about facing Pakistan.

“Don’t know what Najam Sethi is smoking nowadays. I don’t know how is he saying that they were the favourites or India does not want to play Pakistan,” said Bhajji during an interview.

“Please someone give him the whole record where India have beaten them more number of times whenever they have played against each other. This is baseless kind of a thing for him, with the kind of stature that he holds at this moment for Pakistan cricket,” he added.