LAHORE: Returning from the UAE after a mixed series against England, Pakistan national team captain, Misbahul Haq admitted that they needed to improve, especially in the batting department.
Haq’s side saw Pakistan pull of a whitewash in the three Test match series over their top ranked opponents. However, the tables were turned in the one-day series with England securing their whitewash over Pakistan in the four match series. The three match Twenty20 series also went to England.
“England has one of the best bowling. How easily they defeated Australia in Ashes shows how strong they are,” Haq said, surrounded by reporters at the Lahore airport.
“We struggled against them,” was his short assessment. Elaborating, he said that “we need to remove our weaknesses, we need to improve our batting.”
Answering critics over calls of change in the team, Haq urged for patience. “We need to stay a little consistent in team selection. This team had been winning everything for the past 18 months. And after losing one series they are talking about changes.”
“If we make changes after a loss, every series we will have a new team,” he retorted.
Talking about his relationship with the manager and the chairman, Haq said “the management, chairman bucked us up at every corner.”
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We struggled against England bowling: Misbahul Haq
..really Einstein?
misbah, kaptaan sahab you need to visit a doctor. maybe doctor can take out some of yours estrogen and replace it with testosterone..........
yea we played well but our batting didnt click through out the one dayers nd t20's Misbah u should be retire now from t20 cricket.......
We ??? there is no "WE" here ... amend to read " i " only struggled !!!!
Can we relax? You win some, you lose some.
Misbah still the best choice under circumstances. We came very close to winning the last match...
Anyway, very happy with the test results!
Mr. Misbah, you always slow and you are not good enough for one day and twenty twenty cricket. Pakistan also has lost world cup due to your slow batting.
one word for you misbah... LIAR
u did same in 1st T20 final, u did not in 2011 world cup semi final and u did same again.
u r stupid enough to come up with this excuse after wasting many balls and promoting yourself....
Thank you Mr. Tuk Tuk for your ground breaking assessment.
Struggled? Yup the way you were swinging that bat surely looked like a ten yr old swinging for the 1st time. And not to mention that you are the captain, a person who should be the most responsible team player with a long experience in his pocket. And yet you have the audacity to make such lame excuses.
Shame on you Mis-bye!
Misbah and Afridi should retire now.
We Struggled against England Bowling: Misbah
Oh really? Now that's something that I didn't realize. Thanks for letting us know, we thought you'd been hitting them around the park but a "conspiracy" had caused your defeat!
No doubt eng r a gud team nd u guys defeated thrm, thumbs up. But misbah, don't u think that u r too old for t20 version of game.