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"We truly believe in this team and the players and the team believes in me" : Misbah-ul-Haq
Australia v Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq hopes tourists can end series with fireworks.
Pakistan's resolve to move on from the disappointments of Brisbane and Melbourne was built in the hotel room of Misbah-ul-Haq on New Year's Eve.
"Some of the guys with the families just gathered in my room because luckily I got the view of the Harbour Bridge," the tourists' veteran captain said on Monday.
"We just watched the fireworks with all the kids and had dinner there. We enjoyed that and had a chat and after that everybody was relaxed. We just throw everything that happened in the bin and just think about the new year, 2017. Now it looks like everybody is fresh and ready for this Test match. The two matches [against Australia] in 2016 are gone. We're just concentrating on 2017."
Misbah himself enters the third Test in a far more optimistic frame of mind than the aftermath of Australia's series-clinching victory in the Boxing Day Test, when he said he was contemplating retiring immediately.
Only days later, that is now off the cards for the 42-year-old, for this week anyway.
"Nobody was having any doubt that I should leave or I have to leave," Misbah said. "Whatever I said, that was only because we thought and I thought that we were a far better team than what happened in Melbourne, the way we played the two Tests matches and that was all because of that …t he frustration, the disappointment was because of that.
"We truly believe in this team and the players and the team believes in me. And that's why we've been so successful in the past. So I have no doubt in my mind at the moment in terms of whatever I said in that press conference that was, you could say, frustration and disappointment. But if you look at the side, neither the player, neither the coaching staff nor me have any doubts about all this."
The shame for the tourists about the last few weeks, having come so close to a come-from-behind miracle at the Gabba and then been over-powered dramatically by Australia when the second Test seemed destined for a draw, is that the conditions at the SCG were always likely to be the most suitable of the three venues for them this summer. Unfortunately, they have arrived in Sydney with the series no longer alive.
Pakistan did not announce an XI on Monday but are contemplating replicating Australia by including two spinners, with left-arm orthodox Mohammad Nawaz in line to replace seamer Sohail Khan.
"It's not that if Australia put two spinners we don't have to put two spinners, it's about how we think about the conditions," Misbah said.
"We will definitely go for it if we think on the last day the pitch is going to do a little bit for the spinners."
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket...nd-series-with-fireworks-20170102-gtks8o.html
Australia v Pakistan: Misbah-ul-Haq hopes tourists can end series with fireworks.
Pakistan's resolve to move on from the disappointments of Brisbane and Melbourne was built in the hotel room of Misbah-ul-Haq on New Year's Eve.
"Some of the guys with the families just gathered in my room because luckily I got the view of the Harbour Bridge," the tourists' veteran captain said on Monday.
"We just watched the fireworks with all the kids and had dinner there. We enjoyed that and had a chat and after that everybody was relaxed. We just throw everything that happened in the bin and just think about the new year, 2017. Now it looks like everybody is fresh and ready for this Test match. The two matches [against Australia] in 2016 are gone. We're just concentrating on 2017."
Misbah himself enters the third Test in a far more optimistic frame of mind than the aftermath of Australia's series-clinching victory in the Boxing Day Test, when he said he was contemplating retiring immediately.
Only days later, that is now off the cards for the 42-year-old, for this week anyway.
"Nobody was having any doubt that I should leave or I have to leave," Misbah said. "Whatever I said, that was only because we thought and I thought that we were a far better team than what happened in Melbourne, the way we played the two Tests matches and that was all because of that …t he frustration, the disappointment was because of that.
"We truly believe in this team and the players and the team believes in me. And that's why we've been so successful in the past. So I have no doubt in my mind at the moment in terms of whatever I said in that press conference that was, you could say, frustration and disappointment. But if you look at the side, neither the player, neither the coaching staff nor me have any doubts about all this."
The shame for the tourists about the last few weeks, having come so close to a come-from-behind miracle at the Gabba and then been over-powered dramatically by Australia when the second Test seemed destined for a draw, is that the conditions at the SCG were always likely to be the most suitable of the three venues for them this summer. Unfortunately, they have arrived in Sydney with the series no longer alive.
Pakistan did not announce an XI on Monday but are contemplating replicating Australia by including two spinners, with left-arm orthodox Mohammad Nawaz in line to replace seamer Sohail Khan.
"It's not that if Australia put two spinners we don't have to put two spinners, it's about how we think about the conditions," Misbah said.
"We will definitely go for it if we think on the last day the pitch is going to do a little bit for the spinners."
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket...nd-series-with-fireworks-20170102-gtks8o.html
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