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Babar Azam at a presser after Pakistan beat NZ:
"I had it in my mind, that I wasn't able to finish games. But my game plan was the same to what it is in every matches. When I was batting with Hafeez bhai and Harry bhai, we planned to take the partnership as deep as possible"
"Pitch was a little slow at the start, but it began to turn later on so it was difficult for us. Myself and Hafeez bhai planned to take less chances against spinners and attack the fast-bowlers"
"After this win, we're all pretty positive. Our bowling started well, Shaheen Shah Afridi bowled well then Wahab bhai also bowled well. Then in the batsmen, myself, Hafeez bhai and Haris bhai scored runs. We are thinking match to match, we will focus on our next match for now"
"We're not talking about the 92 World Cup, we are focusing match to match, we have do or die matches and we're focused on giving our best in those"
"If you finish the match and the team wins then that does provide you with a lot of confidence. I think this is one of the best innings I've played so I'm very happy. It was very important for us to win and it was a difficult wicket and Allah helped me to score runs on it"
"My target is to be amongst the top players, I plan to give my 100% and perform. Not perform for myself, but for the team. Not that I should perform individually, I am not happy about that. I am happy when my team wins"
"I was quite confident, I gained confidence after my innings in the last match. Before that, I was getting dismissed in the 40s but in the last game I tried to bat through the innings but I couldn't"
"Hafeez bhai and Harry bhai said that I shouldn't take any chances, if chances need to be taken they will do it"
"When you get so much support, then you enjoy that and it builds your confidence"
"We are feeling positive. Our plan before the South Africa match was to give our 100% in these four matches so we're still thinking about the upcoming 2 matches"
"The dearest thing to me is that we won the match. I will dedicate my hundred to my family and the fans for supporting us"
"I was frustrated about not scoring a hundred, I was getting out in the 40s and 60, 70"
"In the first innings the pitch was quite slow but in the 2nd innings it started turning a lot"
"When Harry bhai came there was some pressure because the ball was turning but he released the pressure. It was because of him that the pressure didn't affect us so much and I continued my innings. He was hitting boundaries whenever he wanted to. Our plan was to go with a RR of 6-7, if we face a couple of dots then we can make up for it in the next over"
"I had it in my mind, that I wasn't able to finish games. But my game plan was the same to what it is in every matches. When I was batting with Hafeez bhai and Harry bhai, we planned to take the partnership as deep as possible"
"Pitch was a little slow at the start, but it began to turn later on so it was difficult for us. Myself and Hafeez bhai planned to take less chances against spinners and attack the fast-bowlers"
"After this win, we're all pretty positive. Our bowling started well, Shaheen Shah Afridi bowled well then Wahab bhai also bowled well. Then in the batsmen, myself, Hafeez bhai and Haris bhai scored runs. We are thinking match to match, we will focus on our next match for now"
"We're not talking about the 92 World Cup, we are focusing match to match, we have do or die matches and we're focused on giving our best in those"
"If you finish the match and the team wins then that does provide you with a lot of confidence. I think this is one of the best innings I've played so I'm very happy. It was very important for us to win and it was a difficult wicket and Allah helped me to score runs on it"
"My target is to be amongst the top players, I plan to give my 100% and perform. Not perform for myself, but for the team. Not that I should perform individually, I am not happy about that. I am happy when my team wins"
"I was quite confident, I gained confidence after my innings in the last match. Before that, I was getting dismissed in the 40s but in the last game I tried to bat through the innings but I couldn't"
"Hafeez bhai and Harry bhai said that I shouldn't take any chances, if chances need to be taken they will do it"
"When you get so much support, then you enjoy that and it builds your confidence"
"We are feeling positive. Our plan before the South Africa match was to give our 100% in these four matches so we're still thinking about the upcoming 2 matches"
"The dearest thing to me is that we won the match. I will dedicate my hundred to my family and the fans for supporting us"
"I was frustrated about not scoring a hundred, I was getting out in the 40s and 60, 70"
"In the first innings the pitch was quite slow but in the 2nd innings it started turning a lot"
"When Harry bhai came there was some pressure because the ball was turning but he released the pressure. It was because of him that the pressure didn't affect us so much and I continued my innings. He was hitting boundaries whenever he wanted to. Our plan was to go with a RR of 6-7, if we face a couple of dots then we can make up for it in the next over"
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