Waqar Younis: “I’m seeing medium-pacers or slow-medium pacers, all-rounders, there’s no real pace. People used to come and watch Pakistan pace bowlers really running in hard and bowling 150 clicks [kph], and that’s what I’m not seeing there”
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Legendary Pakistan fast bowler Waqar Younis has admitted that he is extremely concerned about how slow the current pace attack is bowling.
Harsha Bhogle: “It’s not that Shaheen may become a very good captain for all that you know but he is very injury prone and has a lot of bowling to do”
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Renowned cricket commentator Harsha Bhogle admitted he is worried about left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi being appointed Pakistan T20I captain as he is “very injury prone.”
Mohammad Yousuf: “I felt sad looking at Babar, He should not take too much stress”
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New Pakistan Under-19 head coach Mohammad Yousuf said he “felt sad” looking at former captain Babar Azam and expressed concerns about his stress levels.
Sanjay Manjrekar: “Sometimes, I tend to get worried when Babar and Rizwan bat together”
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Sanjay Manjrekar, the ex-India batsman, has admitted that he gets worried when Pakistan captain Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan bat together.
Mohammad Abbas: “I think our fast bowlers should play domestic cricket to improve their fitness. They play Test matches directly after featuring in T20 cricket which leads to fitness issues”
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Mohammad Abbas admitted he is genuinely concerned about the poor fitness of Pakistan’s current fast bowlers and feels they need to do something to solve the problem.
Pakistan batsman Sohaib Maqsood: “They are preparing us for Dubai but they will ultimately end up changing the teams”
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Pakistan big-hitting batsman Sohaib Maqsood had expressed concern about the possibility of losing his spot in the T20 World Cup squad.
Shoaib Akhtar: “He [Shaheen] would have bowled around 90 overs in his T20I career so far. In his last eight Test matches, he would have bowled around 150 overs. Is he tired already? Is it too much workload?”
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Legendary Pakistan pace bowler Shoaib Akhtar has cast doubt over whether left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi’s workload is too much.
Pakistan batsman Sami Aslam: “I thought about my future and realised that I would just be playing some domestic cricket for now and I was actually concerned that they wouldn’t pick me even in domestic cricket in the future”
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Pakistan batsman Sami Aslam said he was worried about being axed from domestic cricket and thus “knew that my time was up”.
Salman Butt: “Agreed! He needs to be looked after. I’m sure he [will] be”
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Former captain Salman Butt has urged Pakistan to ensure left-arm seamer Shaheen Shah Afridi is looked after properly.
Hasan Ali on Naseem Shah: “I do worry about some of these young boys who are very talented”
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Pakistan seamer Hasan Ali has admitted that he is worried about players like 17-year-old fast bowler Naseem Shah.