http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 will do well against Sri Lanka, feels Wasim Akram – Cricket News Update
The former Pakistan captain and a legendary left-arm pace bowler, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wasim-Akram-c96292, feels that playing Sri Lanka on their home ground will be a tough challenge for the Pakistan cricket team, however he is hopeful the Men in Green will do well against the Islanders.
"Pakistan has done well in the past year and although it will be tough playing Sri Lanka on their home grounds I am sure this Pakistan team will do well," said the pace bowling veteran while speaking to the media reporters on Tuesday.
The Pakistan cricket team is due to play their South Asian neighbours in two T20 Internationals, five One Day Internationals and three Tests in the next seven weeks. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mohammad-Hafeez-c76898, for the first time in his career, will be leading the Pakistan team in
the T20 series while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972 will retain captaincy in the ODI and Test series.
Pakistan team gooes to Sri Lanka at the back of an impressive 2011 season, during which the often unpredictable Men in Green showed consistent winning form, bagging all of the series played during that period. The 2011 calendar year saw Pakistan winning
series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Cup 2011, where they reached the semi-finals.
Pakistan also kicked off the 2012 season with a thumping 3-0 Test series win over world number one Test side, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013. They, however, faltered miserably in the one-day leg of the series.
But the side bounced back quickly from the humiliation at the hands of England, winning the quadrangular Asia Cup tournament in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750.
The last time both the outfits played each other, in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033 in October-November last year, Pakistan outclassed Sri Lanka across all the three formats; winning the three-Test series 1-0, five-ODI series 4-1 and the only T20 match as well.
Meanwhile, the head coach of Pakistan, Dav Whatmore, has said that their long term task is to improve their rankings in the all the three formats of the game.
“The task here (in Sri Lanka) is to win, but the longer goal is to take Pakistan high up in the rankings in all three formats,” Pakistan coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Davenell-Frederick-Whatmore-c52571 said at the series launch, in Colombo, on Monday night.
The Men in Green will kick off the seven-week long tour with a T20 International, taking place in Hambantota on Friday.
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