Pakistan needs backup in fast bowling department, says Mohsin http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319 – Cricket News Update
The Chief Selector of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohsin-Hasan-Khan-c77595, has said that Pakistan needs some fast bowlers in order to strengthen the bench.
He feels that there is a lot of cricket played these days and the fast bowlers are bound to get injured and it is always good to have players who can come and perform in International cricket straight away.
Pakistan has a history of producing great fast bowlers, such as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shoaib-Akhtar-c90080, who are considered amongst the greatest bowlers to have played the game. Whenever a cricket analyst talks
about the art of fast bowling, he has to mention Pakistan right up there as a leading country as far as producing high quality fast bowlers in concerned.
The selection committee announced the 16-man squad for the tour of Zimbabwe on the 29th of July and decided to rest the premier fast bowlers, Umar Gul and Wahab Riaz.
Mohsin feels that the duo has been playing all three forms of cricket for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 since the last year and it is absolutely crucial for PCB to give them some rest. This will also mean that some of the new bowlers will get a chance to prove themselves against
the minnows.
The Chief Selector said, “http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wahab-Riaz-c95839 have constantly been playing in all formats of cricket recently and Umar had a slight injury problem ahead of the tour of the Caribbean and Wahab has also been very busy playing a lot of cricket.”
However, the Chief Selector is very careful and said that Pakistan cannot afford to take Zimbabwe lightly as the African team has the potential to upsetting any side, which has happened in past. This is the reason why, the selection committee did not opt
to give rest to some of the senior batsmen like Misbah ul Haq and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Younis-Khan-c98325.
“http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 cannot be taken lightly and our squad was picked with full respect for the opponents. There was never any real consideration for sending an entirely experimental squad made up of youngsters and players with little or no international experience,”
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohsin-c77587 added.
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