Monty Panesar backs English batters to shine in third Test – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Monty-Panesar-c2024, the left-arm orthodox spinner, is confident that the English batsmen will deliver in the third and final Test match of the series against Pakistan, at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.
The International Cricket Council’s list of top 10 Test batsmen has three Englishmen; http://www.senore.com/Cricket/IR-Bell-c1597. Even though England boasts such a formidable batting line-up, they have lost the three-match Test series, and play for pride
at Dubai in the final game.
The English batsmen have crossed 300 runs only once in 4 innings. They were bundled for out for just 72 in their last innings, handing Pakistan a famous victory, and with it the series.
Panesar is expecting England to bounce back in Dubai, as history suggests that the batsmen are due big runs soon. The spinner said, “England batters have done exceptionally well over the last 18 months. The guys have been tested (in last two games), but
we all really want to put on a good show and we hope we can bounce back and play with a lot of pride and produce a good result [in Dubai]. They want to prove we can do well here against Pakistan.”
The English have had trouble against the spin trio of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Abdur-Rehman-c41691 and Muhammad Hafeez have been the architects of Pakistani victories, and the English batsmen have been consistently troubled by the spin wizards.
Panesar admitted that the Green Shirts have played well but pointed out that they have been lucky in terms of the conditions.
The bowler who made his return to English team after being sidelined for two and a half year said, “Pakistan have played good cricket out here. But the conditions out here, the Pakistani bowlers maybe had more of the luck with the conditions - because they
had a fourth-innings track with some cracks.”
The third match of the series between the two sides starts from Friday, February 3, 2012. Besides playing for pride, England will want to banish their demons against spin bowling. They tour http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 following this series, and they will have to
face similar conditions in these Asian countries.
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