Australian commentator Kerry O’Keefe’s remarks about the players of the Pakistan team in the first ODI drew criticism.
In the first one-day match played in Melbourne, Rizwan scored the highest score of 44 runs off 71 balls on behalf of Pakistan, while Naseem Shah played a brilliant innings of 40 runs off 39 balls. The national team could only score 203 runs in 46.4 overs against Australia and returned to the pavilion.
Australia won the match by scoring 207 runs for 8 wickets in just 34 overs, in this match Haris Rauf took 3 wickets, Shaheen Shah Afridi took 2 wickets while Naseem Shah and Mohammad Hasnain took one wicket each.
The national team’s batsmen were a total flop and were struggling to bat against the Kangaroos. During Pakistan’s batting, Kamran Ghulam was dismissed by Pete Cummins on the bouncer and the commentator commented that this is not Multan’s pitch, baby! There is the MCG, for which he was criticized.
Fans took to social media to condemn the comment, calling it an unnecessary criticism of Pakistani batsmen.
The controversy escalated when Wasim Akram and Michael Vaughan discussed Kamran Ghulam’s family, in which Wasim Akram said he was the 11th of his 12 siblings, to which the English commentator replied, “So many children.” Wow! What is the age difference, it is interesting.
Kamran Ghulam’s comment about a family member was criticized by fans as an insult to the cricketer.
