Javed Miandad urges Pakistan team to maintain pressure on England in the ensuing matches - Cricket News Update
The former Pakistan skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Javed-Miandad-c66580, has urged Misbah and his men to maintain pressure on the number 1 Test team, England, in the ensuing series.
The legendary Pakistani batsman has stated that Pakistan has gained a psychological advantage over England by defeating them by 10 wickets inside three days in the first Test match of the series. He also believes that Pakistan can lay the ghosts of 2010
to rest by winning the three-match series.
"Pakistan now clearly has the psychological edge over England and the secret now is to maintain this pressure in the remaining matches," insisted Miandad, who presently serves as a Director on the Pakistan Cricket Board.
Miandad believes that England lost the opening match by a huge margin because they had were playing after some time, and were not able to adapt to the playing conditions in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033.
"Their batsmen struggled to adapt to the conditions and once again they proved to be fallible against quality spin," said the former Pakistan captain and coach.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Ajmal-c87859 was the difference between the two sides, as the off-spinner picked up 10 for 97 in the match. The English batsman failed to pick up his ‘doosra’, and he gained a psychological advantage over the touring batsmen by his touting his 'teesra'.
"It was a good psychological ploy by Ajmal and it will still be on the minds of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 batsmen in the remaining matches," added the legendary Pakistan batsman who played 124 Tests and 233 One Day Internationals for Pakistan, compiling 8832 and 7381
runs in each format respectively.
He was appreciative of the steps taken by the PCB to cleanse the team of corruption after the spot-fixing scandal, and in the aftermath of the scandals the board took the right steps, which have led to an improved performance at the international level.
Second Test of the three-match series begins at Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, January 25th, 2012. The English team will be looking for revenge in the second Test match to square the series, with one match to play. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 will be hoping to wrap up
the series in Abu Dhabi.
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