Pakistan Cricket team leaves for UAE with high hopes
Pakistan cricket team left for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 early on Saturday morning. During the month-long tour Pakistan would to play two T20Is and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) against the Proteas.
Out of the two T20s, one would be played for the fund raising purpose for the flood victims of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755. More than 16,000 Pakistani’s lost their lives in the recent flood and more than four million were left homeless. The infrastructure destruction is other
than this.
The Chairman Pakistan Cricket Board http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ijaz-Butt-c64128 could not brief the players about PCB’s newly formulated code of conduct due to his personal commitments.
The series between Pakistan and South Africa will go underway on Tuesday October 26 when both the sides wearing green would face each other in the first T20 of the two-match series.
Before leaving for Abu Dhabi, the players reported to the new team manager, Intikhab Alam, at the National Cricket Academy (NCA). Alam took over the post from Butt’s buddy Yawar Saeed who has stepped down from the managerial post following the controversial
trip to England.
PCB chief Ijaz Butt was due to deliver a lecture on PCB’s new code of conduct but had to leave for Karachi in emergency due his personal commitments and in his place, the newly-appointed team manager briefed the cricketers and stressed them to maintain on
and off the field discipline.
A large number of cricket lovers were present at the Allama Iqbal International airport, Lahore to see their team off with cheery shouts.
Pakistan team manager Intikhab Alam was hopeful that some team would post some encouraging results in its trip to UAE. While talking to the media reporters the manager said that the side is mentally and physically geared up to face off the difficult Proteas.
Alam was confident that Afridi and his men would put up a good show in the limited-overs leg of the tour.
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