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'Was probably yawning': Wasim Akram bashes Shaheen Afridi for his poor fielding during Australia-Pakistan Day-Night Test

He made a mockery of himself by running away from the ball as everyone watching broke in laughter.

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Pakistan are currently taking on Australia in a Day-Night Test match away from home and things have been wrong for the visitors in every way possible.

Fielding has always been a much-criticised topic for Pakistan and on the first day of the second Test, Adelaide saw another comedy of error from a PAK fielder.

In the 42nd over, Iftikhar Ahmed's full delivery got smacked hard by Aussie opener David Warner but Shaheen Afridi failed to even trace the pink ball's position during the play. 

He made a mockery of himself by running away from the ball as everyone watching broke in laughter.

Things got even worse in the 58th over, when Warner again played a driven shot towards the cover for a boundary but Afridi, unknowingly, knocked the ball towards the boundary in his attempts to stop it.

Former Pakistan pacer Wasim Akram was not at all happy looking at these mistakes sitting in the commentary box.

"Shaheen Shah was in la la land at fine leg," Akram said.

"Yasir Shah and Shan Masood were probably yawning. That's the problem with Pakistan cricket. They should be on the ball."

"Nobody was backing up and you as a fielder, it doesn't matter how inexperienced you are, you set yourself, new batsman in, they just came out, I'll probably start five-ten yards inside the boundary line not on the boundary," Akram added.

Australia declared their first innings score on 589/3 after Warner's prolific unbeaten knock of 335 runs on day two with Marnus Labuschagne securing another ton for himself.

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