Mohammad Rizwan: “Every batter knows that Shaheen will be bowling an in-swinging delivery, yet, he has such skill that he still deceives them”
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Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan said left-arm pace bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi deceives a lot of batsmen with his remarkable skills.
He noted that all batsmen know that Afridi will bowl in-swinging deliveries at them, but the 22-year-old can still get them out.
“Every batter knows that Shaheen will be bowling an in-swinging delivery, yet, he has such skill that he still deceives them,” Rizwan was quoted as saying by Cricwick.
Afridi was recently in England, where he played three County Championship games for Middlesex and took 14 wickets at an average of 25.42.
After that, he represented Pakistan in the three-match ODI series against the West Indies, where he snapped up three wickets in two matches at an average of 24.
He will now feature in the two-Test series against Sri Lanka, which will be played in Galle and Colombo from July 16 to 28.
Pakistan squad for Sri Lanka Tests: Babar Azam (captain), Mohammad Rizwan (vice-captain, wicketkeeper), Abdullah Shafique, Azhar Ali, Faheem Ashraf, Fawad Alam, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Imam-ul-Haq, Mohammad Nawaz, Naseem Shah, Nauman Ali, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfaraz Ahmed (wicketkeeper), Saud Shakeel, Shaheen Afridi, Shan Masood and Yasir Shah
Pooran
Deceiving?? I think the writer meant ‘deceptive’.