Title-holders and hosts Pakistan have managed to crash out of the Champions Trophy 2025 in spectacular fashion, failing to make it past the group stage after dismal defeats to New Zealand and arch-rivals India. Though they still have a dead rubber against Bangladesh on Thursday, their tournament is effectively over, a fittingly underwhelming conclusion to their first time hosting a major international event in three decades.

Pakistan skipper Rizwan believes that Salman Agha and Khushdil Shah are of the same quality (as bowlers) as Jadeja and Axar. You can’t make these things up.
Delulu Is The Only Sululu ??

Please stay like this, Pakistan. Even though matches are one-sided…Pakistan’s meme game…

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) February 24, 2025

There was a time when the Pakistan team boasted legends like Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Shoaib Akhtar, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Younis Khan, and Mohammad Yousuf?a golden era of sheer talent and dominance And now, this team feels like a group project where no one knows what they’re doing,…

— Mayank kulshrestha (@mayankkul6) February 24, 2025

Wasimm ??? pic.twitter.com/3M54OiD3Ge

— Ans (@PakForeverIA) February 23, 2025

Let us dissect where it all went wrong for Mohammad Rizwan’s men in this 50-over trainwreck: