Pakistan captain Babar Azam on Friday dismissed recommendations that his workforce are afraid of Australia. Azam’s feedback come forward of second Test at National Stadium in Karachi ranging from Saturday.
It additionally comes a day after the pitch for the drawn first Test at Rawalpindi was rated as ‘below average’ by ICC match referee Ranjan Madugalle other than being given one demerit level.
“We’re not terrified of Australia. The situations are the identical for each groups, and the World Test Championship factors are very essential. As a captain, I needed us to win. The method our aspect dominated, we had batters rating 150-plus and (bowlers) get wickets. So, there’s nothing to panic about. We dominated. We didn’t get a consequence, sadly, however that’s not in our fingers. If all of the overs that have been misplaced on account of rain have been performed, perhaps we’d have a special consequence,” Azam was quoted as saying by ESPNCricinfo.
Just like how opener Imam-ul-Haq defended the nature of Rawalpindi pitch, Azam too spoke in the same vein. Only 14 wickets fell across all five days of the Rawalpindi Test, ten of which were picked by Pakistan in Australia’s first innings while the visitors’ took only four wickets of the hosts’.
“The conditions here are not as they are in Australia. Every venue has different conditions that we utilise. You can’t just produce bouncy wickets or ‘Australia-style’ wickets; that’s not possible. We’ll go by our strength and try and win the match that way. Test match situations and pitches are different to ODIs; matches have to last five days. Later on, the spinners will get help.”
Azam admitted that dealing with debutant leg-spinner Mitchell Swepson shall be strolling into the unknown for Pakistan. “I haven’t seen a lot of him. We’ll watch movies of him and plan accordingly. We’ve began apply right here; it’s fairly sizzling and the situations are totally different.”
“We have momentum with us; we dominated the first Test and had great individual and team performances. The batters batted well, the bowlers took ten wickets, and Nauman six. The overall team performance was good and we’re trying to take that momentum into this game.”
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