Wasim Akram: “He doesn’t play red-ball cricket. He’s not going to improve. If he’s not going to play, you don’t want a player in your team who refuses to play red-ball cricket”
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Pakistan fast bowling great Wasim Akram has expressed his frustration at the fact that rapid speedster Haris Rauf refuses to play red-ball cricket regularly.
Shane Bond: “You look at someone like Shaheen Shah Afridi, who’s sort of still searching for wickets, bowling [a] really full length, and at the moment he’s going for a lot of runs”
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Legendary New Zealand fast bowler Shane Bond said Pakistan left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi is “searching for wickets” and “going for a lot of runs” when bowling.
Mohammad Amir: “Naseem Shah will come good quicker than the other youngsters. He has out and out pace like (Muhammad) Musa and Hasnain but his length is good”
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Pakistan left-arm seamer Mohammad Amir firmly believes that fellow fast bowler Naseem Shah has an extremely bright future ahead of him.
Wasim Akram told Muhammad Musa: “On this pitch, length is very important”
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Legendary Pakistan left-arm seamer Wasim Akram has advised pace bowler Muhammad Musa to focus on his lengths in the ongoing second Test against Australia.
Wasim Akram: “I told them to focus on the length they’re bowling and [the] field-set for Williamson, [I] told Shaheen to bowl fuller than he has been bowling”
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Legendary Pakistan left-arm seamer has revealed that he told Shaheen Shah Afridi and Mohammad Amir to focus on their lengths and setting the right field for New Zealand captain Kane Williamson.
Shoaib Akhtar: “The needs to learn that the length required for One-Day is different [than] the style of bowling in T20s”
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Legendary Pakistan pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar has advised young seamer Mohammad Hasnain to change his length while bowling in ODIs.
“I think if they can go for three quickies and two spinners, that would be the right combination for Sydney”
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With the fourth Test set to begin in three days’ time, former Australia captain Ian Chappell believes that India should consider using “three quickies and two spinners”.
“Bell was batting in the nets and talked to Moeen about the paces and lines that he would find challenging”
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England head coach Peter Moores has revealed that batsman Ian Bell helped all-rounder Moeen Ali improve his off-spin by giving him a lot of advice about what kind of line and length to bowl.
“Right at this moment we cannot say whether the ban will be reduced or not”
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Bangladesh all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan has met with Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hasan to discuss his six-month suspension.
“You need to sit on that off-stump line, and make sure you get the lbw into the game”
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South Africa pace bowler Vernon Philander has announced that he is looking to do as much damage as he can with the new ball during the first Test against Sri Lanka in Galle.
