Iqbal Qasim insists no bad blood against Dav Whatmore - Cricket News Roundup – Part 1 – April 29, 2012
Reacting sharply to media news, speculating a rift between national team coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Iqbal-Qasim-c76980 on Saturday, clarified that there were no problems between the selection committee and Whatmore.
“I am in contact with Whatmore on a constant basis and I don't think we are facing any points of conflict at the moment,” he said.
Elaborating further, Qasim reckoned, “He [Whatmore] is new in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 and wants to understand the system and wants to see what [players] we have. There is no harm in this, [in fact] we are helping him in this regard by giving him players [the 12 fast bowlers] to assess. This is the part of his strategy."
However, it is believed that Whatmore was not happy to see the inclusion of discarded players in the fitness camp, which is being supervised by the national coach.
According to reports, players like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Yousuf-c77465 are taking part in the National Cricket Academy camp, who according to some insiders, are uninvited guests as they have not been in the national team for a considerable period of time
On Saturday, in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL), Kings XI Punjab secured a sensational win by seven runs against defending champions Chennai Super Kings, in the match that was played at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai.
Batting first, Punjab posted a mediocre total of 156 runs as after getting off to a flyer they lost their way by suffering a batting collapse later in the innings.
However, the total was enough to win the match as they conveniently restricted Chennai on 149 runs as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Azhar-Mahmood-c1116 took three while PP Chawla bagged two wickets.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Punjab-c833 who bolstered an innings of 56 runs was named as the Player of the Match.
In the second match of the day, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) baffled Royal Challengers Bangalore by 47 runs in the match played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata.
Skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/G-Gambhir-c1447, was named as the Player of the Match for his astounding innings of 93 runs that helped his side amass a mammoth total of 190 runs on the board.
Chennai never looked reaching close to the required tally as they kept losing wickets and could manage to post only 143 runs at the end of their innings.
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