Plunkett will leave his decision whether to travel until after the end of the Royal London Series, with the squad for the ODI leg of the tour likely to be named by the end of next week.
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Pakistan faces a must-win scenario in the third One-Day International against England at Trent Bridge in Nottingham to keep the series alive, with the home team already 2-0 up in the five-match series.
Pakistan can move to within four points of the Windies with victories in the final three matches of the series, but will drop to 10 points behind if they lose the series 5-0.
With the sun shining bright, the track looked dry and flat on Monday indicating a high-scoring encounter in which rampaging England, 2-0 up, will be looking to wrap up the series. If England are to win the series in this match Wood will be one of the main reasons as if he manges to take wickets and restrict the visitors then the hosts have a real shout of winning three from three. “We’ve got the next one to do that, so we’ll still be trying to improve on these performances”.
As for those concerns about Bangladesh, where over 20 people lost their lives in the country’s deadliest terror attack last month, Plunkett will put any fears on hold and concentrate first on beating Pakistan.
“It’s just cricket, and it can happen to any team”, he said.
“Maybe I will speak to a few more people, but I trust [ECB security adviser] Reg (Dickason) and what he says”. I believe we can make a comeback.
“I want to try and stop as many as possible – and applying myself to that has got me through the fact I am not bowling”.
“People are talking to each other, getting different ideas”.
Reflecting on the respective merits of the teams in which he has won his 41 caps to date, he said: “At the start you are perhaps a little bit in awe of people around you like Flintoff and KP. but now I feel you can win a game (yourself)”.
“But it’s nice to get that confidence from your captain and coach saying “we want you to play as a specialist batsman” – so I have wanted to make sure I make some runs in these first two matches”.
“We haven’t won the series yet so”.
“We carried on and kept backing what we did”.
“That’s a good thing because we are winning but we can still kick it up another gear”.
While admitting that Pakistan consist of some really talented players, the 27-year-old insisted Azhar Ali’s team are determined to work hard and show their skills in big matches like tomorrow, Sport24 reported.
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Wasim admitted that England will be bolstered by the fact that Ben Stokes, the charismatic all-rounder, who played purely as a batsman in the initial two games, is ready to bowl again.
