Cricket News in Brief – February 05, 2012 – Part 1
England opener, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033 (UAE).
Cook admitted that having taken just two Pakistan scalps at stumps on the second day with the hosts amassing 222 runs, England are in deep trouble, but should not consider being out of the game just yet.
"If we sit here when we turn up tomorrow and say 'well, we've lost this game already' then we might as well give Pakistan victory right now. If we're thinking that in our dressing room, we might as well just not bother turning up." said the opener.
With Pakistan180 runs ahead, England bowlers will have to incinerate the batting side early on the third day to restrict them from gaining an enormous lead, which would be extremely difficult to overcome with the bowling attack that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 currently has in the series.
He commended the batting performance by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 from making further inroads on Saturday, February 04, 2012.
Australian skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Clarke-c1978, has backed his team as the favourites for the Commonwealth Bank Series, starting on Sunday, February 05, 2012, at Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
After annihilating India in the four-match Test series by 4-0, the Australian skipper is quiet confident that his team will equally be impressive in the triangular series where they will meet http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750.
We're the No.1 one-day team in the world so I'd like to think that we're favourites, but in saying that we have to be at our best. We have to play at our best to beat both these teams.” http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 said.
Pakistan head coach, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohsin-Hasan-Khan-c77595 has said that impressive bowling from both England and Pakistan was making batting extremely difficult as batsmen from both teams failed to score massively in their first innings in the final Test being played at United Arab Emirates.
“The pitch was good, no doubt. We know the ball swings early in the morning but we planned to put up a good total and put England under pressure, so credit to them as they bowled well," said http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319.
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