Just finished listening to his post match conference.
1) Up until he was signed up by LQ, he had never played hardball cricket. It was purely tennis ball/tape ball cricket.
2) When he was loaned out in Australia to improve his cricketing skills, he was staying along with Salman Irshad at Aaqib’s friends house “Zahid.” Zahid’s wife looked after his diet, pick and dropped him to the training centre daily.
3) At trials in Pak, he bowled around 92mph.
4) Haris says his focus is on PSL but if Intl selectors knock on his door then he will not say no.
5) LQ team management said that as a team over the years we have played badly but we have contributed a lot in terms of holding talent hunt programmes, trials and sending these players out to Australia and give them exposure against club/county sides and this is our philosophy.
6) Haris Rauf’s first question was “what is the difference between hard ball and tennis ball?” (When he came to Australia
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7) Haris on numerous occassions gave credit to Aaqib and the team for the support since 2017 in developing him. He said he owed them with his performance. He said a lot of hardworking was done ie strength based programmes. (Compound movements)