It is never easy to beat http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Iqbal-Qasim-c76980 – Cricket News Update
Iqbal Qasim, the chief selector of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 Cricket Board (PCB), is backing the Green Shirts after their defeat in the One Day International series at the hands of Sri Lanka, and feels that weather has been a massive hurdle in the on-going tour.
Pakistan went into the series as favourites because of their recent record at the world-stage but Misbah ul Haq’s men failed to deliver the goods against the Islanders and lost the five-match series by a margin of 1-3 (with the third match washed by rain).
There has been immense criticism on Pakistani players because of their inability to handle pressure in crunch situations as they could have easily won the fourth and the fifth ODI, when they allowed matches to slip away from their grasp.
While talking to Pakpassion, Qasim, who is also a former Test cricketer, expressed that Sri Lanka is always a formidable unit at its own backyard and it is never a walk in the park for the opposition teams to dismantle the Islanders.
The former left-arm spinner also believes that the rain interruptions also hampered Pakistan’s progress in the series.
“Sri Lankans are a very strong unit in their own conditions so this was never going to be an easy series of matches in the twenty over and fifty over format. It’s difficult to put Sri Lanka under pressure in their own conditions and the variable weather
conditions did not make things easy for Pakistan either,” Qasim believes.
Pakistan decided to experiment during the tour of Sri Lanka by announcing different squads for the three formats and this policy has been slammed by the cricketing ranks, which believe that the selectors disturbed the team combination by making such changes.
The chief selector however, made it clear that he plans to carry on with the same strategy.
“We made the squads with the future in mind, particularly with the introduction of youth in the Twenty over format. The idea of the three separate teams is a good one and one we will continue to work upon this theory,” the former cricketer added.
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