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A senior opposition baby-kisser in Pakistan, talking on condition of anonymity, demanded Mohsin Naqvi’s elimination as PCB chief.
Mohsin Naqvi became once viewed leaving the stadium midway throughout the match because the innings unravelled.
Pakistan’s crushing defeat to India in the T20 World Cup has spiralled a ways beyond the boundary ropes, triggering political outrage, cricketing backlash and a social media meltdown. What started as a high-stress wearing contest has snowballed into a broader debate about leadership, accountability and the aim of the establishment in Pakistan cricket.
On the centre of the storm is Mohsin Naqvi, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and simultaneously Pakistan’s Within Minister. His dual purpose has reach below renewed scrutiny after Pakistan’s batting collapsed below stress in a one-sided loss to India. Adding to the optics, Naqvi became once viewed leaving the stadium midway throughout the match because the innings unravelled.
Political reactions were swift and scathing. A senior opposition baby-kisser, talking on condition of anonymity, demanded Naqvi’s elimination. “Mohsin Naqvi has failed as Chairman PCB and as Within Minister,” the leader said. “Mohsin Naqvi has destroyed Pakistan’s cricket.” The baby-kisser added that combining the Within Ministry and the PCB became once untenable: “He have to still take care of handiest one portfolio — either Within Minister or PCB chief.”
In a sharper attack, the same leader warned: “It’s the worst security era of Pakistan and he has failed to maintain law and order in the country too.” The lawmaker claimed to be mobilising enhance inner parliament. “I’m alive to with diversified parliamentarians to sail a trip against Mohsin in the next session.”
Some politicians went further, questioning the very decision to play India amid heightened rhetoric. “Boycott’s decision was better than losing like this,” one political sing stated, arguing that the humiliating nature of the defeat had compounded public enrage.
Dilapidated federal minister Fawad Chaudhry took to X with biting sarcasm: “An entice Faisal Vawda: Please add the eleven cricketers alongside with the five hundred politicians, and also encompass the spoons and ladles of the cricket board for your list as effectively. Thank you.” His post quickly went viral, reflecting the frustration and mockery dominating online discourse.
Senior Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf leader Shireen Mazari directly questioned Naqvi’s dual responsibilities. “Running the Interior Ministry and the PCB together was a bad idea from day one. Cricket cannot be managed like bureaucracy,” she wrote, highlighting concerns that administrative overreach had affected cricketing efficiency.
The backlash has now not been puny to politicians. Dilapidated Pakistan immediate bowler Shoaib Akhtar launched a blistering assault on PCB leadership. “Now one guy who does now not know one thing has became the Pakistan Cricket Board’s chairman. How will the team gallop now?” he stated. In even harsher words, Akhtar added: “The final observe crime on the planet is to present a gigantic job to an incompetent and jaahil (ignorant) person.”
Dilapidated batting expansive Mohammad Yousuf described the topic as “the darkest length in our cricketing historic past,” suggesting the defeat reflected deeper structural problems rather than a one-off collapse.
Behind the scenes, sources say the controversy has also unsettled Pakistan’s powerful military establishment. Pakistan Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir is reportedly displeased, both with the defeat and with Naqvi’s earlier press conference remarks in which the PCB chief invoked Munir’s name while responding to questions about India and the ICC. Observers say dragging the army chief into a cricketing dispute — without prior clearance — was viewed as overstepping.
According to well-placed sources, Munir conveyed his concerns to Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif through official channels, flagging what he saw as poor team preparation and rhetoric that unnecessarily escalated tensions. In Pakistan’s civil-military dynamic, such signals carry weight, fuelling speculation about possible changes at the PCB.
In a rivalry where sport and symbolism are inseparable, the fallout from this defeat shows how quickly cricket can morph into a national reckoning. Whether it results in structural change at the PCB remains to be seen.
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First Published:
February 16, 2026, 15:46 IST
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