Misbah-ul-Haq not impressed with Pakistan’s batting – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 as they won the low scoring match quite comfortably with 146 balls to spare.
However, the worrying thing for the tourists was that they lost five wickets chasing a http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972, was not at all impressed with the batting efforts of his men.
Misbah has urged his batting contingent to show more responsibility and prolong their innings after doing all the hard work. The skipper wants batters to make the opposition work for their wickets rather than just squandering them
away.
Calling for ruthless devotion from his team, Misbah said, “We need to give our 100% effort and take the innings along. We need to concentrate more in future. The problem for us is that we need to convert the starts into bigger
knocks and we need to finish it.”
The match, which was played at Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur, saw the Bangladeshi skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mushfiqur-Rahim-c2045, opting to bat first after winning the toss.
During the Twenty20 match against Bangladesh, Pakistan opened the bowling with Muhammad Hafeez. They stuck with the same combination this time around as well. The ploy clicked once again, as Hafeez removed http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Tamim-Iqbal-c2640 in his first
over.
However, it was http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bengal-c771 Tigers' batting line-up, taking five wickets in the process.
Chasing a diminutive total, Pakistan started off confidently with their vanguards Hafeez and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-Farhat-c64218 amassing 36 runs. However, Pakistani batting tottered afterwards, as half of the team was back in the pavilion with just
63 runs on the board.
Afridi once again came to the rescue of Pakistan and along with his skipper wriggled the Green Shirts out of the difficult situation. The charismatic all-rounder played an unbeaten knock of 24 runs, which proved to be vital in
the context of the match.
Misbah was full of praise for Afridi. Commending his stupendous performance, the skipper said, “At one stage, it was becoming really tough, they bowled really well. But thanks to Afridi, we managed to pass the line. Afridi is doing
well since his comeback and we are thrilled to have him back.”
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