The Pakistan cricket team lost to the USA in its first match in the World Cup 2024. After the defeat against the USA, the Pakistan team is being ridiculed a lot. Now a new controversy has arisen regarding this match. In this match, a fast bowler of the Pakistan team has been accused of tampering with the ball. This allegation has been made on this bowler by a player from the USA.
Allegations against Haris Rauf
After the match played between Pakistan and America, American veteran cricketer Rusty Theron has accused fast bowler Haris Rauf of ball tampering. Rusty Theron tweeted that Haris Rauf tampered with the ball with his nails. It is not easy to reverse a new ball changed before 2 overs. Further, he tagged the ICC and wrote, 'Are we just pretending?'
America's historic victory over Pakistan
America has registered a historic victory against Pakistan. In this match, Pakistan batted first and scored 159 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. After this, USA could also score only 159 runs in 20 overs. After this, a super over was played between the two teams to decide the result of the match. In the super over, USA batted first and scored 19 runs. Now Pakistan had a target of 20 runs to win the match. In response to which the Pakistani team could score only 13 runs.