I am ready to take on the Sri Lanka challenge once again - Saeed Ajmal – Cricket News Update
After quite an unimpressive show the last time, Pakistan toured Sri Lanka, the prolific off-spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Ajmal-c87859 is hopeful of leading his side’s spin attack from the front when the Men in Green start their tour of the Island
nation next month.
Speaking to media reporters on Saturday, the 34-year-old right-arm off-spinner vowed to extend his recent form and compensate for last year’s below par showing.
"Things are going in my way [recently], I will try to extend my recent form. I am ready to take on the Sri Lanka challenge once again," Ajmal told the media reporters on Saturday, after Pakistan cricket team concluded its preparatory
camp for the upcoming tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 at National Cricket Academy, Lahore.
Going with the hot and humid weather in Sri Lanka these days, it would be difficult for the fast bowlers to deliver longer spells, hence leaving it up to the spin arsenal to do the most.
Ajmal said that he was ready to take the onus of bowling alongside fellow spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Abdur-Rehman-c41691.
"My body is fully fit and ready to cope the heat [in Sri Lanka], and I know onus will be on the spinners. We[spinners] have to bowl more overs than the fast bowlers because of the heat,” said the right-arm off-spinner who is
currently the No. 2 bowler on ICC’s ODI and Test rankings.
“But I think we have fast bowlers who can provide a breakthrough even in shorter spells, and they will be equally important. [Abdur] Rehman I make a good pair, and we are ready to bowl longer spells," he added further.
Ajmal has been in peak form since October last year. He claimed 18 wickets in last year’s three-match Test series against Sri Lanka, played on the neutral venues of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033. He then claimed 24 wickets against
the world No. 1 Test side http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013, again in UAE earlier this year, as Pakistan won the three-match series three-nil. Also, he was the leading Test wicket-taker of the 2011 season with 50 scalps.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 cricket team will leave for Sri Lanka on May 28, to play two T20 Internationals, five One Day Internationals and a three-Test series against the Islanders.
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