“That’s what we want, people who can learn, think for themselves, act for themselves, be responsible for their game and improve to such an extent they stay in the side and become a first pick and not just an in-and-out fringe player”.
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“But despite everything I have always given importance to my country and I even after retirement I don’t want to be remembered for the number of runs or records I have broken”.
England will now be looking for a major change in fortunes when it comes to the next ODI on Friday. “We were pumped up for Younus and although it was a shock for us to learn that he was retiring, we wanted to give him the win as a sending-off gift, and everyone chipped in”, said Hafeez.
“We will emphasise that going into the next game [tomorrow], particularly to the batters because it’s one thing as a team and a batting unit that we haven’t struggled with these last two series so it is a challenge within itself but we’re up for the challenge”.
“It is all channelled towards winning the next game”.
“But we’ve said many times it’s not about developing – we can’t keep talking about that – it’s about winning”.
But with both gone, the prospect of a commanding total was a mere mirage in the desert – and it was as much as England could do to scramble past 200, thanks to number eight Chris Woakes.
England opener Alex Hales has expressed his relief after scoring his first-ever century in one-day global cricket.
“He is a big asset for long-term”.
Farbrace admits there is a temptation to consider bolstering the seam attack, conceding “that’s something you could look at”.
Jos Buttler has made just 59 runs in his five ODI innings since smashing 129 at the start of the home series against New Zealand back in June.
“He showed last night, despite losing his run-up a couple of times, he got the ball up and swung it and took wickets”.
There were three wickets for the 21-year-old left-arm seamer and Farbarce is confident others will contribute significantly too in the remaining three matches, as long as they identify quickly where they went wrong initially.
Pakistan have dropped Umar Akmal from their T20 squad and stripped Saeed Ajmal of his central contract on disciplinary grounds.
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Akmal is in hot water for bringing Pakistan cricket into disrepute after his allleged behaviour at a dance party, while Ajmal criticised the ICC’s testing procedures of suspect bowling actions, which he has been suspended for.
