Abdullah719
T20I Captain
- Joined
- Apr 16, 2013
- Runs
- 44,825
Misbah at a presser:
"SL's performances are an example for us. They outclassed us. In all 3 departments, it didn't look like we did better than them. All these things are in front of us which we need to work on. We need to answer a lot of questions ahead of the Australia series"
"It's disappointing. Mostly these players have taken Pakistan to #1 and they won a lot of matches, this kind of a performance is disappointing. It's a home series, home ground"
"After getting 4 out in the powerplay, letting a batsman on debut make almost 80 and then having wickets in hand and still losing the match, we played very poor cricket"
"When you have responsibility then you have to accept that. I picked the team and I am coaching it so the responsibility does come on me as well"
"But we need to find solutions fast because these are the same players who have been playing for a while"
"Before the series we were saying playing a new team, new talent, new players because SL's team isn't strong"
"It's a big eye-opener for our system, if we're losing with our best team to a team without their stars in a one-sided manner, where do we stand?"
"We were thinking of ourselves as #1, how were we doing that?"
"If all the responsibility is put on me, that's fine but this is mostly the same team that has been playing for 4 years"
"How much coaching will I have done in 10 days?"
"We will try to work on our shortcomings. Where we feel we need players, we'll try to bring them in and play them"
"This series is a big blow for us all"
(What has changed in these 10 days since you took over) "I think the change (tabdeeli) is that I have come in, I have made the right handed players become left-handed and made the left-handed bowlers bowl with their right hands. That's all that I can think so right now, I'm trying to figure it out"
(Regarding wicket-keeper batsman) "Yes, we just need a wicket-keeper and all the other 10 players are fine. I think we need a lot of things in this team. Our overall performance was poor. Regarding Shadab, which wrist-spinner do we have? We have had 24 teams playing FC cricket, tell me about one wrist-spinner who we aren't picking? Tell me one name. Tell me about one player who is playing FC cricket. (Someone says Usman Qadir) Is Usman Qadir playing FC cricket? We are also seeing this problem as you are, but when we see a player in front of us then we'll pick him. The problem is that we have to see players from the bottom and we need to groom them. So with 6 teams, we (committee with Rashid Latif, Nadeem Khan) tried to pick any available wrist-spinner and them in teams so that they play and we can have some backup. There's no backup for Yasir Shah and Shadab Khan. The problem is availability, we are working on it"
"Regarding strategy, it's simple. With T20, I have mentioned before as well that your first target is to win the powerplay. You need to see what the opposition is doing and see what you need to do. If they are making 50 in the powerplay, you need to make more than that. If you bat first, you need to try and make 50+, even if you lose 2 wickets. The top 3 batsman should charge out, which is not happening in the first 6 overs. We're losing wickets and we're not even scoring at 6 an over. In the middle overs, it's simple, you need to make 7-8 runs per over from overs 6-15. In the last 5 overs, you go all out. You plan to make 170-180 and this is our plan"
"With bowling, you try and get early wickets, pick up 2-3 wickets in the powerplay, you don't defend. In between, take wickets and finish well. The strategy is simple. That we're not managing to execute is a worry. Why are we missing chances in the field? We need to work on these things"
"I think that saying that they (Babar Azam and Haris Sohail) were playing for themselves is wrong. I think that they couldn't adapt to the slowness of the pitch. They were trying to hit but they couldn't connect so there were dot balls and frustration built up. That happened with Babar in all the matches, he couldn't time the ball. Saying that they were playing for themselves, they are our top players and their position in the team isn't such that anyone can challenge it, that they need to score today for their spots in the team. They couldn't adapt and also SL mixed up their bowling. A big factor has been their spinners specially their leg-spinner. Even today he went for few runs, we couldn't read his googly and we didn't play him well. They played all our bowlers well"
"Where our eyes needed to open up, you people (media) also needed your eyes to open up. The way we go after the seniors like in the World Cup, do this, do that etc., we forget their performances. No doubt that Hafeez and Malik not being here, no matter what their performances are otherwise, they are 2 players who play spin the best. And that was a problem for us in this whole series. Our younger lot play fast-bowlers better but since they don't play leggies that often, they struggle to pick them and that's a big reason for us not getting to the targets in the last two games"
"So sometimes we make up our minds on these things and say no, this, that, without analysing it, then we realise later on what we missed"
"SL were underdogs, they weren't taking pressure and they had nothing to lose. They played very well, they executed their plans well and we were not even par, we were poor in all departments and that cost us the series"
"I told the gameplan earlier, they were 44/4. Before going out there, I told the team we need to win the powerplay. If they make 45, we need to make more than that. We can't let the required rate go out of hand. The instructions were clear. I will definitely ask the batsman what problem there was that there were 2 out and the RRR was allowed to go to 14"
(Why wasn't Abid Ali picked, Fakhar Zaman has only 1 hundred) "If Fakhar Zaman has hit only 1 hundred then how is his average 47? With just one hundred, I think his average would be 10. Abid Ali no doubt is a good batsman and he has a good SR in ODIs too. But in T20s, he will need to prove himself before coming into the team. He has an average in 20s and SR of 104, if I pick him now then you will shoot me here and say how can you pick this guy? There's a T20 tournament coming up, so he can play in that and prove himself, score with a good SR which we need in international cricket. He's a very good batsman, the doors are open for anyone"
"SL's performances are an example for us. They outclassed us. In all 3 departments, it didn't look like we did better than them. All these things are in front of us which we need to work on. We need to answer a lot of questions ahead of the Australia series"
"It's disappointing. Mostly these players have taken Pakistan to #1 and they won a lot of matches, this kind of a performance is disappointing. It's a home series, home ground"
"After getting 4 out in the powerplay, letting a batsman on debut make almost 80 and then having wickets in hand and still losing the match, we played very poor cricket"
"When you have responsibility then you have to accept that. I picked the team and I am coaching it so the responsibility does come on me as well"
"But we need to find solutions fast because these are the same players who have been playing for a while"
"Before the series we were saying playing a new team, new talent, new players because SL's team isn't strong"
"It's a big eye-opener for our system, if we're losing with our best team to a team without their stars in a one-sided manner, where do we stand?"
"We were thinking of ourselves as #1, how were we doing that?"
"If all the responsibility is put on me, that's fine but this is mostly the same team that has been playing for 4 years"
"How much coaching will I have done in 10 days?"
"We will try to work on our shortcomings. Where we feel we need players, we'll try to bring them in and play them"
"This series is a big blow for us all"
(What has changed in these 10 days since you took over) "I think the change (tabdeeli) is that I have come in, I have made the right handed players become left-handed and made the left-handed bowlers bowl with their right hands. That's all that I can think so right now, I'm trying to figure it out"
(Regarding wicket-keeper batsman) "Yes, we just need a wicket-keeper and all the other 10 players are fine. I think we need a lot of things in this team. Our overall performance was poor. Regarding Shadab, which wrist-spinner do we have? We have had 24 teams playing FC cricket, tell me about one wrist-spinner who we aren't picking? Tell me one name. Tell me about one player who is playing FC cricket. (Someone says Usman Qadir) Is Usman Qadir playing FC cricket? We are also seeing this problem as you are, but when we see a player in front of us then we'll pick him. The problem is that we have to see players from the bottom and we need to groom them. So with 6 teams, we (committee with Rashid Latif, Nadeem Khan) tried to pick any available wrist-spinner and them in teams so that they play and we can have some backup. There's no backup for Yasir Shah and Shadab Khan. The problem is availability, we are working on it"
"Regarding strategy, it's simple. With T20, I have mentioned before as well that your first target is to win the powerplay. You need to see what the opposition is doing and see what you need to do. If they are making 50 in the powerplay, you need to make more than that. If you bat first, you need to try and make 50+, even if you lose 2 wickets. The top 3 batsman should charge out, which is not happening in the first 6 overs. We're losing wickets and we're not even scoring at 6 an over. In the middle overs, it's simple, you need to make 7-8 runs per over from overs 6-15. In the last 5 overs, you go all out. You plan to make 170-180 and this is our plan"
"With bowling, you try and get early wickets, pick up 2-3 wickets in the powerplay, you don't defend. In between, take wickets and finish well. The strategy is simple. That we're not managing to execute is a worry. Why are we missing chances in the field? We need to work on these things"
"I think that saying that they (Babar Azam and Haris Sohail) were playing for themselves is wrong. I think that they couldn't adapt to the slowness of the pitch. They were trying to hit but they couldn't connect so there were dot balls and frustration built up. That happened with Babar in all the matches, he couldn't time the ball. Saying that they were playing for themselves, they are our top players and their position in the team isn't such that anyone can challenge it, that they need to score today for their spots in the team. They couldn't adapt and also SL mixed up their bowling. A big factor has been their spinners specially their leg-spinner. Even today he went for few runs, we couldn't read his googly and we didn't play him well. They played all our bowlers well"
"Where our eyes needed to open up, you people (media) also needed your eyes to open up. The way we go after the seniors like in the World Cup, do this, do that etc., we forget their performances. No doubt that Hafeez and Malik not being here, no matter what their performances are otherwise, they are 2 players who play spin the best. And that was a problem for us in this whole series. Our younger lot play fast-bowlers better but since they don't play leggies that often, they struggle to pick them and that's a big reason for us not getting to the targets in the last two games"
"So sometimes we make up our minds on these things and say no, this, that, without analysing it, then we realise later on what we missed"
"SL were underdogs, they weren't taking pressure and they had nothing to lose. They played very well, they executed their plans well and we were not even par, we were poor in all departments and that cost us the series"
"I told the gameplan earlier, they were 44/4. Before going out there, I told the team we need to win the powerplay. If they make 45, we need to make more than that. We can't let the required rate go out of hand. The instructions were clear. I will definitely ask the batsman what problem there was that there were 2 out and the RRR was allowed to go to 14"
(Why wasn't Abid Ali picked, Fakhar Zaman has only 1 hundred) "If Fakhar Zaman has hit only 1 hundred then how is his average 47? With just one hundred, I think his average would be 10. Abid Ali no doubt is a good batsman and he has a good SR in ODIs too. But in T20s, he will need to prove himself before coming into the team. He has an average in 20s and SR of 104, if I pick him now then you will shoot me here and say how can you pick this guy? There's a T20 tournament coming up, so he can play in that and prove himself, score with a good SR which we need in international cricket. He's a very good batsman, the doors are open for anyone"
