Wasim Akram: “the whole world now knows the plan against him. They say, ‘Okay, he’ll be bowling yorkers first up.’ So Afridi needs to have a Plan B”
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Pakistan fast bowling great Wasim Akram has called out left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi for being too predictable when bowling and urged him to develop a “Plan B”.
Pakistan batsman Hasan Nawaz: “This is my natural game. If I play slowly, I’ll get out”
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Pakistan batsman Hasan Nawaz doesn’t plan to stop being aggressive, saying if he plays slowly, he will get out.
Aamer Jamal: “Being a fast bowler is all about aggression and if you don’t have aggression in fast bowling then it is not fast bowling”
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Pakistan speedster Aamer Jamal said fast bowling “is all about aggression” and if cricketers don’t have that, then they can’t call themselves proper pace bowlers.
Pakistan spinner Usama Mir: “Leg-spinners are always an attacking option. I don’t care if I am getting hit for 80 runs, if I am getting 4 wickets then I am happy with it”
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Pakistan leg-spinner Usama Mir has made it clear that he is happy to concede 80 runs if he gets four wickets as he knows he has had a strong impact for his team.
Pakistan opener Saim Ayub: “Batting at [a] good strike-rate is the requirement of modern day cricket. We have seen other teams playing with an attacking approach. I would always try to play with [an] attacking mindset even if it was not my natural [game]”
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Pakistan opening batsman Saim Ayub has vowed to continue maintaining an aggressive approach when batting.
Sharjeel Khan: “Always Imran Nazir bhai”
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Pakistan top order batsman Sharjeel Khan has admitted that former big-hitting opener Imran Nazir was more destructive than him.
Mohammad Hafeez: “He used to get involved in a lot of discussions, his body language was quite attacking, he used to try to take charge of the ball himself. Now, since he has changed his franchise, he is having trouble adjusting”
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Former Pakistan team director and interim head coach Mohammad Hafeez feels that spin-bowling all-rounder Imad Wasim has lost his confidence.
Misbah-ul-Haq: “Once he starts to play attacking shots right from the beginning, then he easily gets out. If you look at his stats, he has quite a low average when he hits straight away from the first ball”
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Misbah-ul-Haq, the former Pakistan captain, said top order batsman Fakhar Zaman needs some time to get going as he has a tendency to get out early if he starts playing big shots right from ball one.
Mohammad Hafeez: “The best teams in the world play near 4 RPO (runs per over). If we don’t play at that pace, we can never compete with them. Shan realised that and applied that aggressive intent to his game”
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Pakistan team director Mohammad Hafeez has welcomed Test captain Shan Masood’s decision to play a more aggressive brand of cricket when batting.
Haseebullah Khan: “I try to play like Adam Gilchrist. He was aggressive and I also try to bat aggressively”
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Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Haseebullah Khan said he wants to play like Australia legend Adam Gilchrist and emulate his aggressive style of batting.
