Former Pakistan pace bowler Shabbir Ahmed: “Top order batsmen should [be] professional”
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Former Pakistan pace bowler Shabbir Ahmed believes that the top order batsmen let the team down in the first Test against New Zealand.
Shaheen Shah Afridi: “We dropped a couple of catches and it really hurt us. You have to take catches to win matches. Our fielding was poor today, we need to improve it”
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Pakistan left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi has scolded his teammates for dropping catches in the ongoing first Test against New Zealand.
Asad Shafiq: “I have to improve my conversion rate because while playing for Pakistan, I was not able to convert fifties into hundreds for [the] past two years”
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Pakistan batsman Asad Shafiq admitted that his conversion rate is not good enough and added that he must do better going forward.
Ramiz Raja on Misbah-ul-Haq: “I hold my stance that we need a separate T20 coach [for the national team] who can make right and aggressive decisions in this format”
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Former Pakistan captain Ramiz Raja believes that Misbah-ul-Haq is not good enough to be head coach in T20 Internationals.
Saeed Ajmal: “I don’t consider Shadab Khan suitable for Test cricket as a bowler”
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Former Pakistan spinner Saeed Ajmal believes that spin-bowling all-rounder Shadab Khan is not “suitable for Test cricket”.
Aakash Chopra: “Babar Azam is a big name and hasn’t justified the tag of being part of the fab four”
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Former India batsman Aakash Chopra believes that Pakistan star Babar Azam “hasn’t justified the tag of being part of the fab four”.
Aaqib Javed: “I don’t consider Faheem Ashraf ready for Test cricket, as he doesn’t have the ability to be in your top seven batsmen or top four bowlers”
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Ex-Pakistan fast bowler Aaqib Javed believes that all-rounder Faheem Ashraf isn’t “ready for Test cricket”.
Aamer Sohail: “What the PCB are implying is that Misbah is not a good enough batting coach which is why they had to bring in someone like Younis Khan into the picture as a batting consultant”
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Former captain Aamer Sohail believes Younis Khan was appointed as Pakistan’s batting coach for the tour of England due to head coach and chief selector Misbah-ul-Haq’s failure to get the batsmen to live up to expectations.
Kamran Akmal: “The Pakistan team, like I predicted long ago, is not capable of beating the top sides”
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Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Kamran Akmal has admitted that the national team are just not good enough to beat the top sides in the world.
Taylor claims he was constantly disrespected by Hesson
Former New Zealand captain Ross Taylor has revealed that he always felt like an outcast around head coach Mike Hesson since he was “never supported” and constantly told that he was not “good enough as captain” or “good enough for this team”.
