Gulbadin Naib continued his poor display in ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 as the captain of the Aghanistan Cricket team dropped an easy catch in the last over of West Indies Innings. The all-rounder was placed on the boundary when Carlos Brathwaite failed to connect a big hit and only managed to sky it to long-off where Gulbadin looked all set to take the catch. But instead of even trying to grab the ball, Naib tried to protect his eyes from the sun and the ball went to the boundary.
The Afghanistan skipper has already been on the receiving end of a lot of bashing on social media because of his poor performance and captaincy and the all-rounder only made things worse for himself. The 28-year-old had endured a poor outing with both the bat and ball in this tournament and his casual approach in the field is not excusable.
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Even the sun is against Gulbadin!
The sun will not adjust for you
Gulbadin You need to adjust for the sun.
Gulbadin blaming the sun for missing the catch on the last ball of West Indies batting.
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— Mohammad N Asif (@MohammadAsif_1) July 4, 2019
Twitterati was also not impressed by the Afghanistan captain and bashed him for his complacency on the field.
Naib continues his bad run!!
Somehow Gulbadin Naib has outdone his comedy act vs Pakistan with that drop. #WIvAFG
— Saravanan (@SaravanElango) July 4, 2019
Bad Judgement, Gulbadin!!
What was that??? from @GbNaib its look like school boy error just saving his face to not get hart.He has at least put hand on the ball while taking catch he just look poor @ACBofficials need to work harder and more harder in fielding #GulbadinNaib#AfghanAtalan#CWC19#AskStar
— Abhinav Jha (@Abhinav122000) July 4, 2019
That's Harsh!!!
#GulbadinNaib definitely winning Oscars this year, aise Kon catch chodta h Bhai #AFGvWI#CWC19
— Vinay Bhapkar (@vinay_bhapkar) July 4, 2019
Tough day on-field for Naib!!!
#Gulbadinnaib is not fit for captaincy !! He's the reason for the lost against Pakistan in the previous match , and in this game he didn't attempt a catch in the last ball , And he surprisingly opened the innings and gone cheaply... #AFGvWI #WIvAFG #CWC19
— Divya Priya (@Divyapriya43) July 4, 2019
Expensive let-off by the Captain!!
As if he hasn't got enough stick off late in #CWC19#GulbadinNaib will cop some more blame after the bizzare last ball let-off!#Brathwaite#AFGvWI#AfghanAtalan
— Stumped.app (@stumped_app) July 4, 2019
Afghanistan had a poor run in this world cup as they have lost all of their league matches and are standing last in the points table. However, they would want to win their last league match against West Indies and finish their Cricket world cup 2019 campaign on a high.
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