ICC T20 WORLD CUP 2021

November 7, 2021

Gulbadin Naib

Sheikh Zayed Stadium

Afghanistan

Pre Match Media Conference

New Zealand - 125/2, Afghanistan - 124/8

Q. Afghanistan had two wins in the tournament, almost win Pakistan, and you beat West Indies in the warm-up. What have been the positives for your team in this tournament?

GULBADIN NAIB: First of all, you look at the start of the tournament, especially for Afghanistan, we beat West Indies in the warm-up game, and also we beat Scotland in like a one-sided game.

And then if you look at the Pakistan side and India side, it's not easy. They're a big team. So they didn't give you a single chance.

Like India, last game we played against India, how they played, so they're brilliant. They're outstanding. But we have a lot of work on our team.

So it's not like it's over. So we can do a lot of work on the team. So like before that World Cup we didn't have much time to prepare our team.

In the end, everything, we came out here like three days before the tournament. And it's great stuff for our team and our boys who deliver very quickly, and we did a lot of good things here. So also good thing for us, so we qualified for the next World Cup. We're in the top eight. But it's a lot of work now.

So if you beat like a big team like India or Pakistan, Australia, New Zealand. So we're going to work harder and harder.