Misbah plays down Ishant-Akmal faceoff – Cricket News Update
Pakistan’s ODI skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kamran-Akmal-c70122 during the first T20 International in Bangalore on Tuesday, December 25, 2012.
"I don't think it is a serious incident because both teams were under pressure in the match and such things happen in pressure situations. The relations between the two teams off the field will remain good," said the 38-year-old middle-order batsman when
asked to comment on the on-field altercation between Sharma and Akmal.
The players had been involved in a heated argument in the closing stages of a successful chase from the tourists, at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore on Tuesday night. The umpires and Indian team players had to step in to separate the players and continue
with the thriller, which http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 won by five wickets, to take an unassailable 1-0 lead in the two-match series.
The duo was later fined by the match referee http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 code of conduct. Akmal was fined five percent of his match fee while Sharma was fined 15 percent, since he initiated the squabble, according
to Mahanama.
Misbah and six other Pakistan players, who are not part of the T20 squad against the Men in Blue, arrived here in India late on Wednesday to join the team ahead of the one-day leg of the itinerary, which starts in Chennai on December 30. The other six players
who touched in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Haris-Sohail-c61503.
A couple of experienced players in the T20 squad (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shoaib-Malik-c90088) are not part of the ODI squad originally picked by the PCB selectors. However, Misbah said that if required senior players from the T20 team could be retained for the one-day
encounters. His comments came after Malik scored a match-winning half century in the opening T20 in Bangalore.
Misbah also expressed delight over Pakistan’s victorious start to the much-awaited Indo-Pak itinerary, and hoped for the players to take the winning momentum into the remaining matches of the limited-overs series.
The second T20 International between India and Pakistan will be played in Ahmedabad, on Friday, December 28, 2012.
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