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Shan Masood speaking in presser:
"In a game your hands are tied because slips are very specialized. A lot of fielding places in Test cricket are very specialised. We had four genuine quick bowlers, so it was hard to get them into the slips. And then Abdullah Shafique has been a good slipsman for us and those are the guys that practise for hours every day."
"He's a brilliant slips fielder. He's got age on his side. But I think if he doesn't feel comfortable, Babar is a decent first slipper"
"Babar Azam is our main player. We have no concerns over his performance. His approach is positive. He is practicing for hours in the nets and has great fitness. I am looking forward to him scoring big in the Sydney Test"
"Shaheen Afridi has bowled most overs in world cricket in recent times. He gives his 150% in the training sessions as well. He keeps motivating his teammates. He is our main player. We'll make sure we look after Shaheen Afridi really well"
I'm not 100% educated on the matter of what's going on, but you want the strongest sides to be playing Test Cricket. Test Cricket is the pinnacle, it's the ultimate and the World Test Championship is something that's gone on for like four years and now they've been two World Test Championships, this is the third one so as a Test playing nation we'd all want that to continue and when you want that to continue all the best sides have to have to play that WTC, so it's a pity that South Africa aren't being able to send their full strength squad but hopefully somewhere down the line schedules can be made in a certain way where we see the strongest XIs playing Test cricket"
"Like we said when things went quite wrong by the end at Perth you always have to look at the bigger picture, at least we have the lessons in front of us. At least we've put ourselves in those positions where from there we can dominate games so now it's about learning from them not repeating mistakes or trying not to repeat mistakes and hopefully if we can put in efforts like that I'm sure that there'll be a lot of Test matches in the future but again it's about learning from the mistakes and making sure that when you play quality sides you can't be making those mistakes"
"I think the technology is the same for everyone and just like life, it comes in a full circle, it all balances out in the end. I don't have any complaints with the past. I thought we played some very good Cricket but look we're playing the best side in the world in my opinion at the moment and if you give them a sniff um they will pounce on any opportunities."
"There were phases in the game where we could have put them under a lot of pressure or close the game out, but we had some opportunities which we didn't hold on to or some partnerships that we had built where Pat Cummins decided to break those Partnerships and that really caused a dent in our batting but look the quality of the Australian side's there and we have to make sure that we're not making a lot of mistakes um to close out game so it's very heartening for us as that's what you want to test your skills up against the best sides in the world and at least in Melbourne we can say that we're on the right track and we want to play cricket this way"
"In a game your hands are tied because slips are very specialized. A lot of fielding places in Test cricket are very specialised. We had four genuine quick bowlers, so it was hard to get them into the slips. And then Abdullah Shafique has been a good slipsman for us and those are the guys that practise for hours every day."
"He's a brilliant slips fielder. He's got age on his side. But I think if he doesn't feel comfortable, Babar is a decent first slipper"
"Babar Azam is our main player. We have no concerns over his performance. His approach is positive. He is practicing for hours in the nets and has great fitness. I am looking forward to him scoring big in the Sydney Test"
"Shaheen Afridi has bowled most overs in world cricket in recent times. He gives his 150% in the training sessions as well. He keeps motivating his teammates. He is our main player. We'll make sure we look after Shaheen Afridi really well"
I'm not 100% educated on the matter of what's going on, but you want the strongest sides to be playing Test Cricket. Test Cricket is the pinnacle, it's the ultimate and the World Test Championship is something that's gone on for like four years and now they've been two World Test Championships, this is the third one so as a Test playing nation we'd all want that to continue and when you want that to continue all the best sides have to have to play that WTC, so it's a pity that South Africa aren't being able to send their full strength squad but hopefully somewhere down the line schedules can be made in a certain way where we see the strongest XIs playing Test cricket"
"Like we said when things went quite wrong by the end at Perth you always have to look at the bigger picture, at least we have the lessons in front of us. At least we've put ourselves in those positions where from there we can dominate games so now it's about learning from them not repeating mistakes or trying not to repeat mistakes and hopefully if we can put in efforts like that I'm sure that there'll be a lot of Test matches in the future but again it's about learning from the mistakes and making sure that when you play quality sides you can't be making those mistakes"
"I think the technology is the same for everyone and just like life, it comes in a full circle, it all balances out in the end. I don't have any complaints with the past. I thought we played some very good Cricket but look we're playing the best side in the world in my opinion at the moment and if you give them a sniff um they will pounce on any opportunities."
"There were phases in the game where we could have put them under a lot of pressure or close the game out, but we had some opportunities which we didn't hold on to or some partnerships that we had built where Pat Cummins decided to break those Partnerships and that really caused a dent in our batting but look the quality of the Australian side's there and we have to make sure that we're not making a lot of mistakes um to close out game so it's very heartening for us as that's what you want to test your skills up against the best sides in the world and at least in Melbourne we can say that we're on the right track and we want to play cricket this way"
