Misbah speaking in his press conference today
"We will try to give a proper chance to players (Ahmed Shehzad and Umar Akmal), when we take decisions we obviously have some future planning in mind. We look to where we need players going forward or where we can fit in someone. That's the main objective, you also try to win but I think that in the lead up to the World Cup, we will try to explore with players that we need"
"People are thinking that Fakhar has been dropped. He was completely out of form and wasn't scoring but we played him in the ODIs. The thinking was that if we want to give him rest then he should still be given confidence and allowed to perform then we check the others. So we haven't benched him for T20Is, who benches an in-form batsman? Ahmed Shehzad had performed well in PSL so we thought we should give him a chance. So we want to try and get these other players to perform so that the team is confident. When all your batsmen are performing then only you can beat big teams. You shouldn't be over reliant on players"
"With regards to Ahmed Shehzad, I will try with every player to be fair and to give proper chances so that they know they have been given a fair chance before any decision was taken about them. No matter how much criticism I get, I think you need to give players a proper chance"
"Babar Azam is the #1 player and I personally think that your best player should play the maximum number of overs in T20Is so that you can put pressure on the other team.
We were looking at Ahmed Shehzad for opening or #3 because we need players here then we thought that since Fakhar has scored, we can give him a break and try Ahmed and also Umar.
We will try to make changes wherever needed"