http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-Xavier-Ford-c60657 impressed by the Pakistani fast bowlers – Cricket News Update
After witnessing their brilliance in the first innings, Graham Ford, the Sri Lankan coach, is extremely impressed with the Pakistani fast bowlers.
The Green Shirts opted to go with two seamers and as many regular spinners in the initial two Tests of the series at Galle and Colombo respectively. However, the conditions at Pallekele forced the team management to change the composition, going in with
three genuine fast bowlers and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Ajmal-c87859.
The Lankans managed to reach 337 runs in their first innings, although they had lost three wickets for just 44 runs on the board. All the bowlers in general, and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Junaid-Khan-c77037 in particular, troubled the Islanders throughout the innings.
The home team will have to face the speedsters once again on the last day of the match to save the series, which may well be their first victory in the last 18 months.
Apart from praising the visitors’ quality, the South African believes that playing conditions were heavily in favour of the bowlers in the initial three days of the match, which should not be the case on the last day.
Ford expressed, "Pakistan has got three quality seamers who caused some problems for us in the first innings. The surface, as it is now, makes it easier to face them. Certainly http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 found batting a lot easier a second time round, hopefully it will be
easier for us second time round as well."
While talking about the Sri Lankan bowling performance on day four of the match, the coach is disappointed that his team failed to bowl out the Green Shirts but wants to make amends on the deciding day of the series. However, the Lankan coach was not reluctant
to praise the young Pakistani batsmen, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Asad-Shafiq-c46208.
"We would have loved to have got into them this morning and get more wickets down by lunch. At tea-time we were quite concerned but you have to give credit to the way they played. They played extremely well and our seamers found it a bit tougher," he mentioned.
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