Pakistan&s white-ball captain Babar Azam has said that his nation&s defeat against Afghanistan in the ICC Men&s Cricket World Cup 2023 was &very painful.&&That match was very painful for me because losing to Afghanistan in a World Cup was a different kind of thing,& Babar said in a podcast, A Sports reported.&I think they played very good cricket and we could not execute the way we should.

We made efforts and we posted a good total but the way they both [Ibrahim Zadran and Rahmat Shah] played, it seemed they would not get out on that pitch.

The credit should be given to them as well.&So, that day was a hard day for me.

I couldn&t sleep that day.

It [defeat] hit me hard in the heart.&Babar Azam then went on to share how he overcame the setback, stating it takes time but experience helps a person to handle such situations.&Look, it takes some time to overcome, a day or two.

If you do well, you don&t sleep with excitement leave aside failures.&The more you play, the more you get experienced, you get to know how to handle yourself.&Afghanistan defeated Pakistan by eight wickets in the ICC World Cup 2023.Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran and Rahmat Shah scored half-centuries after Noor Ahmad&s 3/49 led Afghanistan to beat Pakistan.The eight-wicket victory marked Afghanistan&s first over Pakistan in ODIs.

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