"Team Could Have Been In Danger": Pakistan Cricket Board Chief Ramiz Raja on Afghanistan Fan Fury

09.09.2022 - 14:21 sports.ndtv.com

The Asia Cup 2022 stood witness to some unsavoury incident as fans caused mayhem after the Afghanistan-Pakistan match on Wednesday.

The match was a closely-contested one as Pakistan won in the last over chasing a low target of 130. There was fight between Pakistan's Asif Ali and Afghanistan's Fareed Ahmed Malik, after the former was given send-off by the latter.

Latter, Afghanistan fans could be seen uprooting the stadium chairs and creating ruckus. Pakistan Cricket Board chief Ramiz Raja has taken strong exception to the unruly behaviour of the fans. "You don't identify hooliganism with cricket.

This is bad. You don't want such things happening in cricket. We will send a letter to ICC, we will raise our voice against this.

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