While Zimbabwe sent shockwaves in the cricket community by defeating Pakistan by one run in the ongoing T20 World Cup 2022 in Perth, a whole different issue had cropped up before the match had even started.

On the eve of the Pakistan and Zimbabwe encounter, PCB posted some photos from Men in Green’s training in Perth, a Twitter user from Zimbabwe, Ngugi Chasura replied, “As Zimbabweans we wont forgive you. You once gave us that Fraud Pak Bean instead of Mr Bean Rowan. We will settle the matter tomorrow. Just pray that rain doesn’t save you”

In response when a Pakistani fan asked the Zimbabwe fan to explain, he replied, “They gave us Pak Bean instead of Mr Bean in one of our local events called Agricultural show”.  He even shared photos of the said fake Mr Bean, saying: “This is … Pak Bean who imitates Mr Bean stealing people’s money.”

The man portraying the Fake Mr. Bean character made popular by British actor Rowan Atkinson, is Asif Muhammad, a Pakistan comedian. He is known for posing as a doppelgänger for the world-famous character Mr. Bean.

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Now after so much controversy and noise over him, which even got Zimbabwe President taking a dig at Pakistan and Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif replying aptly, the fake Mr. Bean has given an official statement.

A Twitter handle shared a video message from the fake Mr. Bean giving love to Zimbabwe people.

Here it is:

Coming to the match, Zimbabwe made 130/8 batting first with Sean Williams top-scoring with 31 and Mohammad Wasim Jr took 4/24 for Pakistan. In reply, Sikandar Raza picked 3/25 and Brad Evans took 2/25, as only Shan Masood with 44 and Mohammad Nawaz with 22 managed to score some runs against a solid Zimbabwe bowling. 

In the end, Pakistan couldn't make 3 runs off the last ball and lost by one run.