We handled the conditions quite well, says Michael Clarke – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Clarke-c1978, the Australian skipper, is happy after beating Pakistan in the first of the three-match One Day International (ODI) series at Sharjah, and thinks that his side coped well with the conditions.
The Baggy Greens defeated the Green Shirts by four wickets and 10 balls to spare, and took a very handy lead of 1-0 in the competition.
Having won the toss, Pakistan opted to bat first on a flat track, but managed to score only 198 runs before folding in the 46th over of the innings. At one stage of the innings, it looked as if the Men in Green would go
on to score around 250; however, an extremely poor display of shot-selection led to their downfall.
On the other hand, chasing a mediocre total, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Glenn-Maxwell-c60189 played out of their skins to see their team home.
While expressing his views in the presentation ceremony, the Aussie captain admitted that playing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Saeed-Ajmal-c87859, the Pakistani off-spinner, was the toughest challenge, but he vows to perform even better in the remaining two encounters.
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The Pakistani captain was devastated at his batsmen’s performance, who continued to throw away their wickets at crucial moments. Misbah however, was delighted with the fight his bowlers put up.
He expressed, "Bowlers have done a wonderful job for us. We should have scored 230, but our batsmen messed up. The spinners bowled well. We were 30-35 runs short. We're repeating the mistakes from SL."
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mitchell-Aaron-Starc-c76392, the left-arm pacer, who picked up a five-wicket haul to be named as the Player of the Match, was over the moon and said that the track assisted him in troubling the Green Shirts. The youngster praised his side’s batsmen
for chasing down the total against one of the world’s best spin bowling attack.
"There was a little bit on the pitch. We all bowled well tonight, full credit to out batters, it wasn't easy out there," the left-armer mentioned.
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