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Sarfaraz Ahmed speaking at a press conference after the match :
"Sri Lanka played better cricket than us"
"We lacked in batting and none of our players' played a big innings which cost us"
"All credit to the Sri Lanka bowlers, especially their spinners"
"The thinking today was to play positive cricket and to rotate the strike"
"This was my first series as a Test captain and it was tough as the requirements for a Test captain are different from other formats"
"Winning the toss is important when playing matches in Asia, but even then we came close to winning in both Tests"
"If more of us had played the type of innings Asad played, then we could have done better in the series"
"We cannot say that we had problems due to openers as even when they gave us a good start we still did not capitalize as no one could play a long innings"
"We wanted to use Azhar Ali in the middle order as we wanted to make it stronger"
"We could not convest the 50s to 100s and did not have big partnerships"
"We did play a practice match in Lahore so it would not be right to say we did not prepare well"
"We did not play fast enough at the start of the 2nd innings"
"Asad and I thought that if we played attacking cricket then we could get ourselves out if this situation"
"We did our homework on all bowlers including Rangana Herath"
"Babar Azam is a talented players and I accept his performances in Tests have not been that good but it is too soon to write him off"
"Babar Azam needs to be backed so that he can put in good performances for Pakistan in the future"
"We didnt play 2 spinner as we felt that we had some good fast-bowlers in the shape of Mohammad Amir and Hasan Ali"
"Our batting was the main difference rather than our bowling"
"We did not take the Sri Lankans lightly"
"Sami Aslam made some mistakes but he is young and hopefully he will make amends and comeback to the team again"
"There is pressure on me as I have lost a Test series but I will try and ignore that as we have a good record in ODIs"
Asad Shafiq :
"The ball was new and regardless of the time of the day, it will move more in the first 10 overs"
"We had planned overnight that we would have to tackle the fast-bowlers with the new ball but unfortunately that plan did not work"
"If this partenership between Sarfaraz and I had been prolonged a bit then the result would have been different"
"My last few innings were not that good but I was more positive when I came to play this innings"
"I was attacking from the start because these quality bowlers will not give you easy runs"
"When the team management asked me where I felt comfortable playing, I said number 4"
"Due to the big gap in Tests, I could not prepare as well for Tests I would have hoped for"
"Sri Lanka played better cricket than us"
"We lacked in batting and none of our players' played a big innings which cost us"
"All credit to the Sri Lanka bowlers, especially their spinners"
"The thinking today was to play positive cricket and to rotate the strike"
"This was my first series as a Test captain and it was tough as the requirements for a Test captain are different from other formats"
"Winning the toss is important when playing matches in Asia, but even then we came close to winning in both Tests"
"If more of us had played the type of innings Asad played, then we could have done better in the series"
"We cannot say that we had problems due to openers as even when they gave us a good start we still did not capitalize as no one could play a long innings"
"We wanted to use Azhar Ali in the middle order as we wanted to make it stronger"
"We could not convest the 50s to 100s and did not have big partnerships"
"We did play a practice match in Lahore so it would not be right to say we did not prepare well"
"We did not play fast enough at the start of the 2nd innings"
"Asad and I thought that if we played attacking cricket then we could get ourselves out if this situation"
"We did our homework on all bowlers including Rangana Herath"
"Babar Azam is a talented players and I accept his performances in Tests have not been that good but it is too soon to write him off"
"Babar Azam needs to be backed so that he can put in good performances for Pakistan in the future"
"We didnt play 2 spinner as we felt that we had some good fast-bowlers in the shape of Mohammad Amir and Hasan Ali"
"Our batting was the main difference rather than our bowling"
"We did not take the Sri Lankans lightly"
"Sami Aslam made some mistakes but he is young and hopefully he will make amends and comeback to the team again"
"There is pressure on me as I have lost a Test series but I will try and ignore that as we have a good record in ODIs"
Asad Shafiq :
"The ball was new and regardless of the time of the day, it will move more in the first 10 overs"
"We had planned overnight that we would have to tackle the fast-bowlers with the new ball but unfortunately that plan did not work"
"If this partenership between Sarfaraz and I had been prolonged a bit then the result would have been different"
"My last few innings were not that good but I was more positive when I came to play this innings"
"I was attacking from the start because these quality bowlers will not give you easy runs"
"When the team management asked me where I felt comfortable playing, I said number 4"
"Due to the big gap in Tests, I could not prepare as well for Tests I would have hoped for"
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