Misbah-ul-Haq said:
“It is just about the shot selection; when the ball is fuller or even on a shorter length, you are trying to hit it for a 4. And two of your main players, Imam and Babur, are already back in the pavilion. Though you have seen the Australians if the same ball is bowled to David Warner, even if it is fuller or on a shorter length, they did not try to hit it for a 4; they hit it for a 6. Knowing that a boundary is small, they went for the full-blooded shot and hit it for a 6, even if it was fuller or shorter length. We played many balls from the spinner even if it was bowled fuller; we played it like we were playing in a huge stadium, so knowledge about the ground and taking the initiative that if a ball is fuller, it's a small 62 boundary, why are you not taking a risk? At one point, when the pressure increases, you have to do so much. At the back end, when the wickets are also falling, you need 8 an over. The wicket falls, and the new batsman takes a bit of time, and suddenly the run rate required goes to 10. So this is the difference, according to me, and the second thing that I was saying before, the way we have bowled, if we had planned properly, we could have saved 35 to 40 runs.”
“You know that Adam Zampa is bowling wicket to wicket, and he is trying to cramp you. He wants you to play that ball to the square leg so he can get you out leg before and look how we got out. We did not went to play straight; we could have given some room at least so we could get some extension and target the straight boundary instead we are trying to go towards mid-wicket, square leg, or point like the way Iftikhar got out. We know the bowling plan of Stoinis in every match because when he comes to bowl, he bowls the bouncers like slow bouncers are cutters. It was the first ball, and Abdullah tried to get out of the crease and hit him for a boundary, and he got out when he was set on the crease, you lost the wicket, and the match got out of our hands. Till the end, you can see how Rizwan got out. Rizwan was already set. Why would you want a slider or a straighter ball that he is bowling wicket to wicket and you are trying to go cross-batted and you or trying to hit it towards square leg? That is not going to happen, and you will get LBW. Instead, he could have given himself some room and targeted the straighter boundary.”
... the batsmen he brought in are Asif Ali, Ifthikhar ahmed, Khushdil, Danish Aziz
