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"We need a policy to make sure that the first priority should be for the country" : Misbah-ul-Haq
Misbah at a press conference:
"It's an important series and we're thinking of winning the match, as we were thinking in the 1st match"
"We need to put a lot of effort in the bowling to get 20 wickets, until we get the other team out, how will we win matches"
"The performance was satisfactory, in fact excellent, Abid's hundred and the way Babar is batting but we need to do better with the bowling"
"When you bring any player in the squad, you do it to strengthen the squad. Whenever we feel that we need Fawad, we will play him. It's not necessary that it will be in this Test or the first Test but we will look at how we can make our best combination"
"We will hopefully make a policy soon about this because this can be a problem for Pakistan going forward. When you invest in players and they should give preference to the country and they leave and go here and there, I don't think that's right. You put resources, play them and make them. I think we need a policy to make sure that the first priority and availability should be for the country"
"It's important for the media to speak up for performing and deserving players but at the same time, it's important for us to see what the team requires and where we need players. Often when you're looking from the outside, you can't see the finer points which the management can see. Sometimes we look at long term or short term planning and make decisions accordingly and that's not always understood from the outside"
"The phase that the team is going through, there are areas we need to work on. We need to develop our bowling. In Test cricket from the last couple of series we've played, a few things were obvious, we lost 3 matches in SA then we lost home series vs NZ. To settle these problems, you have to focus on a long term basis. I want to focus on the long term and make sure that betterment and improvement is permanent, not that we think about 1-2 series or matches and then my successor faces the same problems"
"It's difficult to pick a team but we can only play 11, or we can tell SL to play 16 (so we can also). You can't make decisions in a hurry, we want everyone to get a fair chance and where we can give someone else a chance, we can try. Kashif Bhatti has been with the squad but we haven't had a chance to play 2 spinners. Haris has one bad match but his performances in 2 Test series before were good so we are trying to give him chances instead of writing him off. Azhar Ali has performed as well, he didn't perform in the last 3 matches but he has scored in every country. It is a concern that he is out of form but we are thinking positively"
"The teams that play more cricket and play a lot of matches at home have advantage in WTC. Lesser matches mean lesser opportunities which is a problem for us. We will try to win matches whenever we play to get back in the WTC race"
"Both teams know each other quite a bit and we play in similar sort of conditions so both teams have an idea about eachother"
"The most important thing at this point is that if we look at our batting, the way they batted in those conditions in Australia. Babar Azam's batting is the biggest plus, the way he stepped up in Australia and also made a hundred here. There is a big shift in his batting, we knew about white ball cricket but he is dominating in Test cricket which is a big plus for Pakistan. At the same time we have a young bowling attack and I think it's a big positive, the way Shaheen and Naseem bowled. Consistently hitting 140+ in good areas. They have a lot of time and they can develop into match-winners. They are bowling well now and with improvement, I think Pakistan will find two very good bowlers in them. These are the big positives for Pakistan"
"My instructions before the series was that we wanted supportive pitches for the pacers. Previous pitch did help the pacers and on this pitch hopefully there is some grass which helps the pacers with a bit of pace and bounce. But with Pakistan's weather and the conditions here, sometimes you can't get the type of pitch you want. Hopefully the pitch plays according to our requirement"
"Spinners play a role in Karachi because you get 5 days so you can't remove the spinners from the equation"
"We are hoping that by the time the England series starts, our team specially our bowling has a set combination. The development process is happening right now. Even if we don't have matches, we need to give players experience through camps, etc."
"Spinners' role in Rawalpindi has never been prominent and we knew that we will get around 70 overs of play per day and 2 days would be washed out. Our only chance was to bowl first and bowl them out cheaply. I was satisfied with the decision to not play a spinner in the 1st Test"
Misbah at a press conference:
"It's an important series and we're thinking of winning the match, as we were thinking in the 1st match"
"We need to put a lot of effort in the bowling to get 20 wickets, until we get the other team out, how will we win matches"
"The performance was satisfactory, in fact excellent, Abid's hundred and the way Babar is batting but we need to do better with the bowling"
"When you bring any player in the squad, you do it to strengthen the squad. Whenever we feel that we need Fawad, we will play him. It's not necessary that it will be in this Test or the first Test but we will look at how we can make our best combination"
"We will hopefully make a policy soon about this because this can be a problem for Pakistan going forward. When you invest in players and they should give preference to the country and they leave and go here and there, I don't think that's right. You put resources, play them and make them. I think we need a policy to make sure that the first priority and availability should be for the country"
"It's important for the media to speak up for performing and deserving players but at the same time, it's important for us to see what the team requires and where we need players. Often when you're looking from the outside, you can't see the finer points which the management can see. Sometimes we look at long term or short term planning and make decisions accordingly and that's not always understood from the outside"
"The phase that the team is going through, there are areas we need to work on. We need to develop our bowling. In Test cricket from the last couple of series we've played, a few things were obvious, we lost 3 matches in SA then we lost home series vs NZ. To settle these problems, you have to focus on a long term basis. I want to focus on the long term and make sure that betterment and improvement is permanent, not that we think about 1-2 series or matches and then my successor faces the same problems"
"It's difficult to pick a team but we can only play 11, or we can tell SL to play 16 (so we can also). You can't make decisions in a hurry, we want everyone to get a fair chance and where we can give someone else a chance, we can try. Kashif Bhatti has been with the squad but we haven't had a chance to play 2 spinners. Haris has one bad match but his performances in 2 Test series before were good so we are trying to give him chances instead of writing him off. Azhar Ali has performed as well, he didn't perform in the last 3 matches but he has scored in every country. It is a concern that he is out of form but we are thinking positively"
"The teams that play more cricket and play a lot of matches at home have advantage in WTC. Lesser matches mean lesser opportunities which is a problem for us. We will try to win matches whenever we play to get back in the WTC race"
"Both teams know each other quite a bit and we play in similar sort of conditions so both teams have an idea about eachother"
"The most important thing at this point is that if we look at our batting, the way they batted in those conditions in Australia. Babar Azam's batting is the biggest plus, the way he stepped up in Australia and also made a hundred here. There is a big shift in his batting, we knew about white ball cricket but he is dominating in Test cricket which is a big plus for Pakistan. At the same time we have a young bowling attack and I think it's a big positive, the way Shaheen and Naseem bowled. Consistently hitting 140+ in good areas. They have a lot of time and they can develop into match-winners. They are bowling well now and with improvement, I think Pakistan will find two very good bowlers in them. These are the big positives for Pakistan"
"My instructions before the series was that we wanted supportive pitches for the pacers. Previous pitch did help the pacers and on this pitch hopefully there is some grass which helps the pacers with a bit of pace and bounce. But with Pakistan's weather and the conditions here, sometimes you can't get the type of pitch you want. Hopefully the pitch plays according to our requirement"
"Spinners play a role in Karachi because you get 5 days so you can't remove the spinners from the equation"
"We are hoping that by the time the England series starts, our team specially our bowling has a set combination. The development process is happening right now. Even if we don't have matches, we need to give players experience through camps, etc."
"Spinners' role in Rawalpindi has never been prominent and we knew that we will get around 70 overs of play per day and 2 days would be washed out. Our only chance was to bowl first and bowl them out cheaply. I was satisfied with the decision to not play a spinner in the 1st Test"
And Amir retired before a Test series to Australia.
