Head coach, Misbah-ul-Haq is confident that the Pakistan cricket team willput on a good showing in the upcoming limited-overs series against SouthAfrica. Misbah believes that the pitches at the two venues, Johannesburgand Centurion, will suit Pakistan and the team looks to be in good shapeahead of the series.——————————
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Misbah said that historically Pakistan have performed well at the twovenues and they will look to replicate those performances in the upcomingseries.
“If I look back, when we used to come here and play, these two wickets,Centurion and Wanderers, we always enjoyed these pitches. The bounce andpace is very true and as a batsman you enjoy that, you get full value foryour shots. Some of the players in this team have already played here andperformed very well,” Misbah said.——————————
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He praised Pakistan’s pace attack and he believes that the pacers will bethe key at the two venues. Pakistan possess a potent pace attack consistingof Shaheen Afridi, Hasan Ali, Haris Rauf, Faheem Ashraf and MohammadHasnain in the ODIs, while Karachi Kings’ pacer Arshad Iqbal is part of theT20I squad as well.
Misbah led the Pakistan side to their first ever ODI series in South Africain 2012/13, and he is confident that the outcome will be the same this timearound. The first ODI is scheduled to be played on 2 April at SuperSportPark, Centurion.
