{"id":184937,"date":"2023-09-14T03:25:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T03:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansapidnews.com\/?p=184937"},"modified":"2023-09-14T03:25:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T03:25:57","slug":"why-would-india-want-to-deliberately-lose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansapidnews.com\/sport\/why-would-india-want-to-deliberately-lose\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Why would India want to deliberately lose?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shoaib Akhtar slammed fans for accusing the Indian team of fixing the Asia Cup Super Four game against Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>India pulled off a hard-fought victory over the Lankans on a tricky surface that favoured spinners with Kuldeep Yadav starring with a four-wicket haul.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his YouTube channel, Shoaib stated that many fans called him after the match, alleging that the Indian team &#8216;fixed the game&#8217; and were trying to lose the match deliberately.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t know what you guys are doing. I am getting memes and messages saying &#8220;India have fixed the game&#8221;, that they are losing deliberately in order to eliminate Pakistan. Are you alright?&#8217; the retired Pakistan pacer asked<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They (<em>Sri Lanka<\/em>) are bowling their heart out. (<em>Dunith<\/em>) <strong>Wellalalge<\/strong> and (<em>Charith<\/em>) Asalanka bowled their heart out.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;You saw that 20-year-old kid? He scored 43 runs and took 5 wickets. I am getting phone calls from India and other countries, saying India were losing deliberately.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Why would they lose, tell me? They want to go through to the final. You end up making memes without any reason. It was a great fightback from India. The way Kuldeep played, it was massive. Look at Jasprit Bumrah, look at the fight while defending a small total,&#8217; Akhtar added.<\/p>\n<p>India beat Sri Lanka by 41 runs to book a place in the Asia Cup final on Sunday while Pakistan and Sri Lanka face off in a virtual semi-final on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rediff.com\/cricket\/report\/asia-cup-shoaib-akhtar-why-would-india-want-to-deliberately-lose\/20230914.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shoaib Akhtar slammed fans for accusing the Indian team of fixing the Asia Cup Super Four game against Sri Lanka. India pulled off a hard-fought victory over the Lankans on a tricky surface that favoured spinners with Kuldeep Yadav starring&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#039;Why would India want to deliberately lose?&#039; - Indiansapidnews.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansapidnews.com\/sport\/why-would-india-want-to-deliberately-lose\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&#039;Why would India want to deliberately lose?&#039; - Indiansapidnews.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Shoaib Akhtar slammed fans for accusing the Indian team of fixing the Asia Cup Super Four game against Sri Lanka. 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