In a battle between the 2009 and 2010 ICC World Twenty20 champions, Pakistan leads eighth-ranked England by 14 points.
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“Since we have gained the High Performance status and we will be playing in the second World Twenty20 coming up which shows the guys have improved and there is a lot of professionalism in them”.
Pakistan proved too good for Hong Kong on Monday, beating the minnows by 64 runs in Dubai in a Twenty20 warm-up for their three-match series against England starting this week. He further added, “We have this series now to perform better and secure a good series win”.
Pakistan are likely to get two to three Twenty20 matches if their series against India is held next month before they head to New Zealand for another three matches.
Record-setting Hong Kong batsman Mark Chapman Wednesday believes the thriving nation is progressing well at the global level and will express themselves when they feature in next year’s World Twenty20 in India.
Pakistan are hampered by the absence of ace spinner Saeed Ajmal, who is struggling with a new bowling action which needed adjustment after it was deemed illegal.
Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi won the toss and elected to bat first, but opener Ahmed Shehzad did not give the start they wanted and got out for a duck.
Bilal Asif (2-13) and Afridi (2-21) both took two wickets apiece for the designated hosts, who have won their last six T20 internationals ahead of the series against England.
Though, Pakistan had lost the One Day worldwide (ODI) series 3-1 to England.
Afridi stated the Pakistan workforce can be prepared to go to India for the World Twenty20 subsequent yr if the cricket board and authorities give the inexperienced sign.
And Hafeez added that he and his team-mates were looking forward to playing again at the Dubai worldwide Stadium, a venue that has staged more Twenty20 Internationals than any other in world cricket.
“We could have done better in the one-day worldwide series against England but unfortunately we didn’t play as well as our opponents”.
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Pakistan rode on a brilliant 38-ball 55 from wicket-keeper batsman Mohammad Rizwan who smashed two sixes and five boundaries in the match played at the worldwide Cricket Council academy.
