Pakistan Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq has said achieving top Test ranking for Pakistan for the first time is something to be very proud of and the entire nation is delighted over this special feat.
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Phil Simmons has urged the seniors as well as the youngster to shape up before the Pakistan series in the UAE. Most of the teams end up giving hundreds to top-order batsmen. “Tough tasks ahead”, he added.
No play was possible for the fourth consecutive day at the Queen’s Park Oval, after only 22 overs were bowled at the start of the match with the West Indies reaching 62 for two before lunch on day one.
West Indies Cricket Board chief executive Michael Muirhead expressed his organisation’s surprise with the state of the outfield and is awaiting an explanation from the officials of the Queen’s Park Cricket Club over the circumstances that meant there was no play over the last four days of the match despite nearly continuous sunshine.
Under Younis, Pakistan plummeted to No. 9 in one-day worldwide rankings – a slump which they need to address in the five-match series against England starting today.
Indian offspinner Ravichandran Ashwin is not sparing West Indies cricketers, be it on the field or off it.
In the last two years, Pakistan have beaten Australia and England at home, drawn with New Zealand, and earned impressive away series wins in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh before the 2-2 draw against the English gave the world notice of their class.
India, however, could only manage to remain at the top-spot for less than a week.
India will now travel to Florida to play two-match Twenty20 global series against the West Indies on August 27-28.
“The series was a little bit too up and down. we played well in a cluster, maybe two hours, three hours sometimes and then the next two hours we would be down and I think that for me that was the major disappointment”, the Trinidadian told a media conference. Rankings keep going up and down, and you don’t play for rankings. We had come here looking to improve in a few areas and we have done that. The first of the 13 Tests begins in Kanpur in September.
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“We needed improvement here in the lower order”.
