Shaheen Shah Afridi: “Hasan Nawaz’s exclusion does not mean that he has completely vanished from the team. He is the future of Pakistan”
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Pakistan ODI captain Shaheen Shah Afridi has made it clear that big-hitting batsman Hasan Nawaz won’t vanish completely after he was dropped from the ODI and T20I squads.
Pakistan mystery spinner Abrar Ahmed: “My role is to focus on improving my bowling and working hard daily. With many spinners being groomed, I’ve had experience playing on green pitches in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy”
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Pakistan spinner Abrar Ahmed has acknowledged that he must keep improving his bowling as there are plenty of talented spinners coming up the ranks.
Haris Rauf: “Amir bhai is our senior bowler. I get to learn a lot from him. The team benefits when there is competition for spots between bowlers. There is no jealousy. You try to perform better than one another so that the team benefits”
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Pakistan seamer Haris Rauf has insisted that he is not jealous of left-arm seamer Mohammad Amir, even though he will be competing with him for a spot in the T20I team.
Pakistan opening batsman Sahibzada Farhan: “I believe that a player should get a proper chance in one or two series but now that competition is so tough that we have to perform even if there’s just one game for us, we have to perform and do well”
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Pakistan opening batsman Sahibzada Farhan believes he should be given a proper chance to cement his place in the national team.
Sahibzada Farhan: “I always love to see him (Shehzad) scoring runs, it is a coincidence that whenever he scores, I also [manage to] score there. It is always a competition when people in the same slot as you are also among [the] runs, a professional rivalry is a good thing”
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Pakistan opener Sahibzada Farhan said he and Ahmed Shehzad have a “professional rivalry” as both of them are scoring plenty of runs right now.
Moin Khan: “If you have a competitor like that, then you should double your hard work or give way to a youngster”
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Moin Khan, the former Pakistan captain, said Sarfaraz Ahmed needs to double his workload in order to have any chance of replacing Mohammad Rizwan as the first-choice wicketkeeper-batsman.
Mohammad Rizwan: “I’m not fazed by the competition; in fact, I’m myself trying to search for more wicketkeepers in Pakistan”
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Mohammad Rizwan, the Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman, said he is happy to have more competition for his position but noted that the players “need to meet the required standards”.
Imad Wasim: “To be honest, there has never been any competition like that between myself and any other bowlers. Unfortunately, this is all the making of the selectors for reasons best known to them”
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Pakistan spinner Imad Wasim said there the national selectors are to blame for creating the fake illusion of a rivalry between him and Mohammad Nawaz.
Sarfaraz Ahmed: “I don’t think there is a tie between us; I think it’s a competition, and it’s good to compete”
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Former Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed said he enjoys competing with fellow wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan.
Pakistan opener Imam-ul-Haq: “In order to become a main player in T20 cricket, like I have done in ODIs, I will have to enhance my game”
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Pakistan opener Imam-ul-Haq said he wants to be a main player in T20 Internationals, but knows that he must “make some changes to my game” in order to achieve that.
