Pakistan’s T20 captain, Salman Ali Agha, is just not disheartened by the 1-4 defeat within the just-concluded collection in New Zealand and believes that the brand new faces tried out within the matches will ultimately come by means of.
“Look the situations in New Zealand are usually difficult with the bounce, tempo and motion within the pitches, so for gamers coming to play right here for the primary time it’s all the time going to be tough,” he mentioned after New Zealand received the fifth and closing sport in Wellington on Wednesday by eight wickets.
Salman, who’s captaining the facet in preparation for this 12 months’s Asia Cup and subsequent 12 months’s T20 World Cup in India and Sri Lanka, mentioned the brand new gamers ought to cool down by then.
“It was not straightforward for them to bat in these situations. There are some silver linings from the collection and a few issues as properly however we have now to handle them earlier than we go into the Asia Cup later this 12 months,” he mentioned.
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Salman, who was in good type within the collection and scored a half-century on Wednesday, mentioned that it was mandatory for gamers to grasp that with aggression and intent additionally they have to make use of their minds.
“We didn’t play wise cricket within the collection more often than not and bought out to unhealthy pictures. However with extra publicity these new younger gamers will be taught and we have now to be affected person.” Pakistani selectors experimented by together with loads of kids within the T20 squad whereas dropping skilled batters like Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan.
Mohammad Haris, Hasan Nawaz, Irfan Khan Niazi, Abdul Samad, Omair bin Yousuf (who performed on Wednesday), Jahandad Khan and Sufiyan Muqeem have been the comparatively new faces within the squad.
Muqeem, a left-arm wrist spinner, performed in his solely sport on Wednesday and ended with spectacular figures of 2-0-6-2 regardless of a batting onslaught from Tim Seifert who scored 97 from simply 38 balls with 10 sixes.
Pakistan’s subsequent T20 task is a house collection in opposition to Bangladesh in April-Could after the Pakistan Tremendous League.