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"Will work on our shortcomings & will try & bring in improvements before the WC" : Misbah-ul-Haq
Misbah-ul-Haq speaking at end of the 3rd T20I
"The good thing for players who did not perform well in this series is that the PSL is coming up and they will have a chance to do well there"
"With the senior players who are not in the side at the moment, we will have good pool of players to choose from and that will be good thing for us, especially with the players who will join us (after performing well) from the PSL"
"We are aware of our shortcomings especially in playing spin and given that we have to play the World Cup in India, we will need to make a lot of improvements"
"We will work on our shortcomings and will try and bring in improvements before the World Cup"
"Asif performed well in the One Day tournament and also did well in the T20 tournament; We brought him in today as we felt that our middle order batsmen weren't scoring that many runs and he got one chance today but we will see in the future about him; Of course we will also look at the players in the PSL and see how their form stacks up"
"Ball was spinning a lot and we had a wicket-taking option in mind and we wanted to put pressure with both leg-spinners and Zahid bowled well on his debut and got us breakthroughs to damage the South Africa innings"
"Look there are a lot of matches to be played before the World Cup, about 20 matches, so why worry about that tournament as if it was tomorrow? It's testing games like today's one that help your team build the right temperament and the fighting spirit"
"We didn't have all our senior players and in T20 it does matter when you don't have your full strength side"
"If we take into account that when we have likes of Shadab Khan, Imad Wasim and Mohammad Hafeez available for us and the fact that after the PSL we will get more good players coming out of it, we will be better equipped for the T20 World Cup"
"Look I have been saying this for a while now that Bhai I have no insecurity; There are things in our control which is to focus on any series that we are playing; What we don't have in our control is how long the PCB will keep us employed so there is no point taking pressure about that"
"Danish was very close to being selected for this game today; Our only concern was that this was an important match and it would have been unfair if we had played him in such a pressure game; He is an excellent player and gives us an option of spin as well; We are really looking forward to giving him a chance in the future; Today he was close to selection but we were hesitant to make wholesale changes to the middle order and because it was a pressure game, we gave Hussain Talat another chance"
"I am satisfied with our performances because we weren't playing a number 12 ranked team or something like that - we were playing against South Africa"
"Yes, they may not have all the regular players but the players in this side were top T20 performers from South Africa"
Misbah-ul-Haq speaking at end of the 3rd T20I
"The good thing for players who did not perform well in this series is that the PSL is coming up and they will have a chance to do well there"
"With the senior players who are not in the side at the moment, we will have good pool of players to choose from and that will be good thing for us, especially with the players who will join us (after performing well) from the PSL"
"We are aware of our shortcomings especially in playing spin and given that we have to play the World Cup in India, we will need to make a lot of improvements"
"We will work on our shortcomings and will try and bring in improvements before the World Cup"
"Asif performed well in the One Day tournament and also did well in the T20 tournament; We brought him in today as we felt that our middle order batsmen weren't scoring that many runs and he got one chance today but we will see in the future about him; Of course we will also look at the players in the PSL and see how their form stacks up"
"Ball was spinning a lot and we had a wicket-taking option in mind and we wanted to put pressure with both leg-spinners and Zahid bowled well on his debut and got us breakthroughs to damage the South Africa innings"
"Look there are a lot of matches to be played before the World Cup, about 20 matches, so why worry about that tournament as if it was tomorrow? It's testing games like today's one that help your team build the right temperament and the fighting spirit"
"We didn't have all our senior players and in T20 it does matter when you don't have your full strength side"
"If we take into account that when we have likes of Shadab Khan, Imad Wasim and Mohammad Hafeez available for us and the fact that after the PSL we will get more good players coming out of it, we will be better equipped for the T20 World Cup"
"Look I have been saying this for a while now that Bhai I have no insecurity; There are things in our control which is to focus on any series that we are playing; What we don't have in our control is how long the PCB will keep us employed so there is no point taking pressure about that"
"Danish was very close to being selected for this game today; Our only concern was that this was an important match and it would have been unfair if we had played him in such a pressure game; He is an excellent player and gives us an option of spin as well; We are really looking forward to giving him a chance in the future; Today he was close to selection but we were hesitant to make wholesale changes to the middle order and because it was a pressure game, we gave Hussain Talat another chance"
"I am satisfied with our performances because we weren't playing a number 12 ranked team or something like that - we were playing against South Africa"
"Yes, they may not have all the regular players but the players in this side were top T20 performers from South Africa"
