Former Pakistan cricket team's manager, Intikhab Alam, has said that he is very positive about Pakistan’s chances against world number one Test side, England, in the upcoming three-match Test series starting in Dubai on January 17, 2012.
Alam, the former Pakistani cricket captain, is presently working with the Pakistan cricket board as director of game development and director of cricket operations. These days he is in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033 to check on arrangements at the venues ahead of
the Pakistan-England series.
Though http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Intikhab-Alam-c64380 is pretty hopeful about his team’s chances of doing well against Andrew Strauss and his men, he has urged the Pakistan cricket team to take the winning momentum along.
“We are very positive. The way the team has gelled means morale is rocketing high but we have to make sure we keep playing that same way,” said Alam while talking to the media reporters on Wednesday.
Alam said that though Pakistan has performed remarkably against Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, winning all the series, he urged the side to be wary of the formidable England side that had dethroned http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 with a power-packed performance at home this
summer.
"England are the number one Test side in the world and so despite our recent successes (against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ian-Douglas-Fisher-c63819. They will be a real test but we have enough talent to beat them. We have done it in
the past and we can do it again,” Alam added further.
England has been at their best since the 2010-11 Ashes series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 and
his men at home this summer to clinch the world number one Test side title.
The upcoming three-match Test series against Pakistan will be http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013’s first series since becoming the world’s best Test side and also their first away Test series since winning the Ashes in January earlier this year.
The upcoming http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755-England series is the former’s home series, which PCB is forced to host in UAE due to the security issues prevailing in the country. The three-match Test series will be followed by four One Day Internationals and three T20 Internationals.
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