Pak Tour to Bangladesh: News & Updates

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Pakistan Team For ODI
Misbah-ul-Haq(C),Abdul Razzaq,Abdur Rehman,Younis Khan,,Asad Shafiq,Imran Farhat,Mohammad Hafeez,Umar Akmal,Mohammad Khalil,Saeed Ajmal,Sarfraz Ahmed,Shahid Afridi,Shoaib Malik,Sohail Tanvir,Umar Gul,,Junaid Khan,Aizaz Cheema

Bangladesh Team For ODI
Mushfiqur Rahim(C),Mahmudullah,Abdur Razzak,Alok Kapali,Elias Sunny,Farhad Reza,Imrul Kayes,Naeem Islam,Nasir Hossain,Nazmul Hossain,Rubel Hossain,Shafiul Islam,Shahriar Nafees,Shakib Al Hasan,Tamim Iqbal

Pakistan Team For Tests
Misbah-ul-Haq (Capt), Taufeeq Umar, Imran Farhat, Mohammad Hafeez, Younis Khan, Adnan Akmal, Asad Shafiq, Shoaib Malik, Azhar Ali, Mohammad Khalil, Mohammad Talha, Saeed Ajmal, Umar Gul, Abdur Rehman, Aizaz Cheema

Bangladesh Team For Tests
Mushfiqur Rahim (Capt), Mahmudullah (vc), Tamim Iqbal, Shahriar Nafees, Mohammad Ashraful, Shakib Al Hasan, Naeem Islam, Nasir Hossain, Rubel Hossain, Nazmul Hossain, Elias Sunny, Shahadat Hossain, Suhrawadi Shuvo, Robiul Islam, Nazimuddin.

 

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Ahsraful axed, Reza given recall

Mohammad Ashraful has been dropped from Bangladesh's squad for the limited-overs leg of their upcoming home series against Pakistan. Allrounder Farhad Reza, who has not played for Bangladesh since 2008, has been recalled to the squad. Shuvagata Hom and Suhrawadi Shuvo also do not find places in the XV, while Elias Sunny, who took seven wickets on Test debut, has been included . Vice-captain Mahmudullah, who missed the ODI series against West Indies due to illness, returns to the squad.
Source:Cricinfo

 

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Khalil replaces Junaid for Bangladesh tour

Mohammad Khalil, the Zarai Taraqiati Bank Limited left-arm seamer, has been named as Junaid Khan's replacement in Pakistan's Test, ODI and Twenty20 squads for the Bangladesh tour. Khalil, who has not played for Pakistan since 2005, got the call-up after Junaid picked up a partial strain in his abdominal muscle during Pakistan's one-day series against Sri Lanka in the United Arab Emirates.
Source:Cricinfo

 

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RE: Pakistan Tour to Bangladesh: News & Updates

Ajmal the biggest threat - Tamim

Tamim Iqbal, the Bangladesh batsman, has said the offspinner Saeed Ajmal will be the biggest threat to Bangladesh when Pakistan tour there in November-December 2011-12. Ajmal is the joint-leading wicket-taker in Tests this year, with 41 from 6 matches at an average of 23.41, and also features in the top ten wicket-takers in ODIs this year. Tamim recognised Ajmal was in form and said the Bangladesh batsmen would have to watch his variations carefully.

"I've only faced him [Ajmal] for one delivery and that was in county cricket when I was playing for Nottinghamshire and he was representing Worcestershire," he told Pakpassion.net. "I scored a single and was happy to be at the other end. He's a very good bowler and is in great form at the moment. It is going to be a real challenge to face the Pakistan bowlers in the upcoming series, especially Saeed Ajmal. He's a very experienced bowler who has a lot of varieties and he will certainly be someone that my colleagues and I will have to watch carefully."
Source:Cricinfo

 

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Misbah hopes Pakistan continue winning run

Pakistan captain Misbah-ul Haq on Saturday hoped his team continued their winning streak during the tour of Bangladesh starting next week, after whitewashing Sri Lanka in all three formats of the game.

Pakistan beat Sri Lanka in T20 international on Friday, capping a successful tour in which they also won the three-Test series 1-0 and five-match ODI serie 4-1. They now play a T20 international against Bangladesh on Tuesday.
Newspaper:Mid Day, 27th Nov

 

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Misbah warns teammates against complacency

Karachi: Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq and coach Mohsin Khan have cautioned their players against being complacent in the series against Bangladesh, starting from November 29 with a Twenty20 match in Dhaka.

"It would be a big folly on our part to think we can walk over Bangladesh. We are playing a full series in Bangladesh after a long time and I have told the players to treat the series as a top one because there will be lot of pressure on us," Misbah said before his departure from Abu Dhabi to Dhaka.

Mohsin supported the captain's argument saying the home support for Bangladesh is always very strong and visiting teams in the past had struggled to do well there.

"Playing Bangladesh in Bangladesh is never easy. The team has done extremely well against Sri Lanka but there is still room for improvement. We now take every match day by day and try to improve and that is the formula we will follow in Bangladesh," Mohsin said.

Misbah said Bangladesh had a couple of world class players in Shakib ul Hasan, opener Tamim Iqbal and spinner Abdur Razzak.
Source:Cricnext

 

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Tricky opening challenge for in-form Pakistan
http://www.espncricinfo.com/bangladesh-v-pakistan-2011/content/current/story/542421.html

 

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Whatmore, Rhodes in running for coaching posts with Pakistan

Former World Cup-winning Sri Lanka coach Dav Whatmore and ex-South Africa player Jonty Rhodes were in the reckoning for coaching positions with the Pakistan cricket team, PCB chairman Zaka Ashraf said.

Ashraf said as far as the appointment of coaches were concerned, the names of Whatmore and Rhodes were under consideration.

In an interview to 'Jang' newspaper, Ashraf did not elaborate on the issue, but stated that Whatmore's name was under consideration for a main coaching position while that of Rhodes was for fielding coach.

Whatmore was also in the run for Pakistan head coach's post in 2008 but it went to fellow Australian, Geoff Lawson.

The PCB had last month had advertised for the positions of batting, bowling and fielding coaches and had received about 15 applications from interested candidates.

Earlier, the PCB had advertised for the post of head coach after the resignation of Waqar Younis and got a response from around 37 candidates, including several foreigners, but it is yet to reach a consensus on the matter.
Newspaper:Indian Express, 29th Nov

 

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Tricky opening challenge for in-form Pakistan

It is all coming together for Pakistan cricket. Since the sordid English summer of 2010, Misbah-ul-Haq's side has stayed clear of controversy with a sense of purpose and discipline rarely seen in Pakistan outfits. That discipline has now permeated into their cricket; they have sacrificed some of their inherent flash in favour of winning ugly, and are yet to lose a bilateral series this year. One test remains - have they overcome their tendency to slip on the odd banana peel?

Bangladesh are among the more treacherous banana peels going around. Pakistan would know - their defeat in a 1999 World Cup encounter between the sides is still being spoken about. That loss paved the way for Bangladesh attaining Test status, and three years later they nearly toppled Pakistan in the long format, before Inzamam-ul-Haq pipped the thriller by a one-wicket margin. That tour, in 2003, was the last bilateral encounter between these sides. Here's to a renewal of rivalries.

The one-off Twenty20 offers Bangladesh their best chance of an upset. They recently outplayed West Indies in a similar tour-opening Twenty20 game. Pakistan have been on the road for a while now, and are unlikely to be caught unprepared, but Misbah-ul-Haq's men would be wary, all the same.
Source:cricinfo