Pakistan v England series not a contest of spinners, says Mohsin Khan – Cricket News Update
Pakistan's interim coach, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohsin-Hasan-Khan-c77595 has turned down the notion that the upcoming high profile series between his team and England will be all about the spin bowlers.
With the presence of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Monty-Panesar-c2024.
With http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033 (UAE), the pundits are expecting both teams’ spinners to play a vital role in the series, opening with the Dubai Test on January 17, 2011.
Mohsin however, has a completely different take on this. He said that the series will be a tough clash in all departments of the sport.
“I don’t see it as a duel between the spinners. Both teams are doing well and I see it as a competitive fight in all the departments. Batting from both the sides will be under pressure and Pakistani batters will have to do 100% to combat strong http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 bowling,”
Mohsin told reporters after the first day of a week-long training camp ahead of the highly anticipated series.
Team Green produced excellent work last year. After beating Zimbabwe in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747.
However, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 side is now up against the world’s top Test side. The coach admitted that his team will have to give more than one hundred percent to knock England down.
Referring to Pakistan’s comprehensive win against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972, and rated the 37-year-old as an intelligent
and composed captain.
“In Misbah we have a very wise captain and he has led the way admirably. England will really test us so we have to be at our best. I want the players to be in the same rhythm as in our wins against Sri Lanka a few months back,” added the former Test cricketer
who is interested in the permanent coaching job.
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