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Pakistan’s new T20 captain Salman Ali Agha on Tuesday promised a brand new strategy within the shortest format, saying his crew will play fearless cricket because it prepares for the upcoming tournaments. Agha, who was on Tuesday named Pakistan captain for the five-match T20I tour of New Zealand starting March 16, mentioned the selectors had picked a brand new look facet as a result of there was a have to play fearless cricket. “I’m honoured to be Pakistan captain however it is usually a problem for me. We now have principally picked kids within the T20 squad. My process is to get gamers to play fearless and excessive danger cricket,” he mentioned after his appointment.
“We are going to clearly face failures however all of us have to assist these gamers. They might be advised to play freely. These days there isn’t a different choice within the T20 format than to play fearless cricket.” He mentioned there was a have to play with a special mindset in T20s and the chosen gamers will probably be assured they won’t be dropped even when they face some failures.
“Having Shadab Khan as vice captain will also be good as he and I think with the same aggressive mindset and we will collectively try to groom attacking players.” Agha additionally defended the number of Shadab within the T20 squad, saying Pakistan had been quick on high quality all-rounders in Check and white-ball codecs.
“Shadab has experience and nowadays you need players who can also bat with their wrist spin.” Interim head coach Aaqib Javed made it clear that whereas Babar Azam and Muhammad Rizwan had been dropped from the T20 squad, they don’t seem to be out of the image for the long run assignments.
“We are now trying to focus on a pool of 24-25 players looking to the Asia Cup and World Cup and we will not just depend on the 15-16 selected for this tour.” The Asia Cup will probably be held later this yr whereas the T20 World Cup will probably be staged in 2026.
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