Australia’s middle-order batter Marnus Labuschagne has shared his desire to silence the crowd, which will likely be heavily in Afghanistan’s
side when they play against each other on Friday at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. He also said that he wishes Australia finish at the top spot in their pool as well.

Speaking to reporters on Thursday ahead of the big game, Labuschagne said, as quoted by Perth Now: “As players, you always want to play. Obviously, if the whole match rains out, that means that we go through to the semi-finals. But we’d love to be able to win the game tomorrow and finish top in the pool. That’s something we want to aim to do and make sure we’ve won all our matches leading up to the semi-finals. But those things are out of our control, so I will have to make sure we’re ready to go tomorrow if it is a shortened fixture.”

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With Cricket Australia sharing their views against Afghanistan for a bilateral series due to human rights violations against women amid the Taliban rule, Labuschagne said that he doesn’t have any views since it’s an ICC event.

He added: “Yeah, interesting question. Obviously, it’s an ICC tournament and our game, as the schedule came out, we’re playing Afghanistan. Personally, I’ve got no issues about playing tomorrow. But, obviously, there has been some stances from us at Cricket Australia in the past. But we’re just focusing on tomorrow where we are playing Afghanistan.”