Aggressive and positive cricket is a key behind Afghanistan’s success - http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rashid-Latif-c84084
Rashid Latif, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Afghanistan-c745 coach, has said that aggressive cricket is the strength of his team and expressed confidence in his side to win the ICC Intercontinental Cup which gets underway on 2nd of December at the Dubai
Sports City International Cricket Stadium.
"They hate to lose and are mentally very tough," Latif said. "This team has a lot of self-belief. They play aggressive and positive cricket - that is the strength of this Afghanistan team."
In the final of the Intercontinental Cup Afghanistan will take on http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Scotland-c756. Both the sides made it to the final show after finishing the league phase of the tournament at the top of the points table. Seven associate nations participated
in the league phase that was topped by Afghanistan with Scotland finishing a spot behind them.
Afghanistan, the runners-up of the recently concluded 2010 Asian Games Cricket tournament, won the last league game against Scotland by 229 runs. Peter Steindel the coach of Scotland, who had won the opening ICC Intercontinental Cup
in 2004, said has termed Afghanistan as the favourite team of the Dubai final.
"Afghanistan deserve the favourites tag," Steindel said. "We have been competitive and overall are a workmanlike team. We will continue to work on delivering a strong performance. It has been a two-year cycle. We have targeted this
competition as one of the areas for us to do well."
Steindel further added that the final game against Afghanistan would be a great opportunity for his men to become better cricketers.
Afghanistan Cricket has enjoyed a fairytale run over the last two years making the 2010 World T20 Championship appearance as well. And recently, they defeated the gold-medal favourites of the Asian Games, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 at Guangzhou in the
semi-final before losing to the Bengali tigers in the final.
Kabir http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319, the UAE coach who coached Afghanistan team in the league phase the tournament, said the event has provided the aggressive youngsters of Afghanistan a very good platform to improve their game.
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