http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972 wants experience in bowling department – Cricket News Update
Pakistani skipper, Misbah-ul-Haq, wants to add experience to the squad for the team’s upcoming assignment, which sees them battle http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033.
Ahead of the selection of the squad, likely to take place in the first week of October for their trip to the Middle East, the skipper offered his thoughts over the team's composition, stating the importance of senior figures in a side still without a head
coach.
In the absence of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Younis-Khan-c98325 and Misbah being the only two remnants of the previous era.
The recent tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shoaib-Malik-c90088 into the team, which boasted a host of youngsters looking to make a mark in the International Arena. Even though the tour was a resounding success, the skipper still feels that it essential to have
a good balance of experience and youth.
With the emergence of pacers such as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wahab-Riaz-c95839.
Gul and Riaz were both rested by the management recently, and even though the experiment was a success, Misbah still feels that the team will have to change the composition for the upcoming tour.
"Senior players have their own importance and we have to go with the [them] when playing Sri Lanka," Misbah told reporters on the sidelines of ongoing Twenty20 Championship in Karachi. "The major goal was to induct youngsters in the side [for the Zimbabwe
series] to have a tested lot in the back-up, since we are in the transition process.”
The Men In Green will lock horns with Sri Lanka in the first of three Test matches on the 18th of next month, at Abu Dhabi, followed by the second and third at Dubai and Sharjah respectively.
They will certainly need experience in the longer version of game which will be provided by their pacers, who have successfully plied their trade in the English domestic circuit, with Gul performing for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kent-c802.
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