Shahid Afridi urges Pakistan to make winning a habit – ICC World Cup 2011 news
Flamboyant http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 skipper Shahid Afridi on Tuesday urged his unpredictable armoury to be more consistent in performance and make winning a habit if it wants to go all the way in the ongoing ICC World Cup 2011.
“We had a very good win against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758, so we want to keep the momentum going,” said Afridi. “We should not be negative about anything and must make winning a habit.”
The Afridi-led side had a turbulent build-up to the high profile tournament, which was ridden by the humiliating spot-fixing scandal followed by a captaincy issue.
But once the esteemed World Cup event began in Dhaka in the mid of February 2011, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kenya-c752 by a mammoth margin of 205 runs in
their first match and defeated co-hosts and tournament favourites Sri Lanka by 11 runs in the second.
Afridi and his men are now gearing up to take minnows Canada on Thursday and the victorious Pakistan skipper is eager to continue the winning streak.
“We must show consistency because we are not known for that,” conceded Afridi while talking to the media after a practice session in Colombo. “We need to keep the momentum going in the Canada match because we still have a long way to go in the tournament.”
Afridi said that they take every match seriously and specifically those against teams which they have not played a lot in the past and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Canada-c748 are one of those sides Afridi and his men do not know much about.
The Men in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Green-c60723 have played Canada just once in the past and that was in the 1979 World Cup at Leeds, a match that Pakistan won by 8 wickets.
Like other World Cup teams, Pakistan are also facing some injury concerns in the ongoing quadrennial tournament. Left-arm spinner, Abdur Rehman picked up a muscle injury in the win over Sri Lanka while vice-captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972 is battling a minor hamstring
issue.
Off-spinner Saeed Ajmal is likely to step in for Rehman while Asad Shafiq is expected to replace Misbah against Canada.
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