Pay more attention, Usman Salahuddin sees worrying trend among young Pakistan players

Usman Salahuddin said younger players need to pay more attention to four-day cricket

Usman Salahuddin: “four-day cricket is the highest level of domestic cricket which tests your fitness, technique and I would urge our younger players to pay more attention to this format than the shorter formats”

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Pakistan batsman Usman Salahuddin has admitted that he has spotted a worrying trend among the young players in the country, whereby they are more interested in playing T20 cricket rather than four-day cricket.

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What type of cricket does Pakistan batsman Babar Azam want to play more of?

Babar Azam wants to play more four-day cricket to learn how to build his innings Pakistan cricket

Babar Azam: “I am trying to play more and more four-day cricket and by playing long innings in four-day matches I believe it will also allow me to understand how to build my innings in Test matches”

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Pakistan batsman Babar Azam wants to “play more and more four-day cricket” since it will “allow me to understand how to build my innings in Test matches”.

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I want to ‘punch’ the England administrators ‘in the face’, says Michael Vaughan

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Vaughan was appalled by the number of domestic Twenty20 matches being played

Former England captain Michael Vaughan has announced that he wants to “punch” the country’s cricket administrators “in the face” over the unbelievable number of domestic Twenty20 games being played during the historic Ashes series.

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