In the 8th match of the World Cup 2023, Pakistan defeated Sri Lanka by 6 wickets and achieved its second consecutive win in the tournament. Abdullah Shafiq and Mohammad Rizwan were the heroes of Pakistan's victory in this match, especially Rizwan remained unbeaten till the end and played an inning of 131 runs and made Pakistan's victory easy. Not even 24 hours had passed since this brilliant innings that Rizwan came into the limelight for some other reason.
Mohammad Rizwan, who played a brilliant inning against Sri Lanka, has dedicated his innings to the victims of the Israel-Palestine war in Gaza. Rizwan has shown his support to Palestine through social media. There has been a lot of uproar on social media regarding this post of his and Rizwan is also being trolled a lot.
Rizwan wrote in his tweet, “This was for our brothers and sisters in Gaza. Happy to contribute to the victory. Credit to the entire team and especially Abdullah Shafiq and Hasan Ali for making it easy. Extremely grateful to the people of Hyderabad for their wonderful hospitality and support."
Some fans are requesting ICC to take action against Rizwan. In such a situation, it will be interesting to see what effect this post of Rizwan has. If we talk about the match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, then at one time the Pakistani team had lost two wickets for 37 runs but after that they came to bat. Rizwan made a partnership of 176 runs for the third wicket with Abdullah Shafiq and made the target of 345 runs easy.
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