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‘Homeless’ Pakistan merit to be No 1, says Misbah
- Updated: August 14, 2016
England’s captain Alastair Cook (R) chats with Pakistan Pakistan’s captain Misbah-ul-Haq as they mount with a prize during a display rite after they share a prize with a array drawn 2-2, after a fourth day of a fourth exam cricket compare between England and Pakistan during a Oval in London on Aug 14, 2016. PHOTO: AFP
LONDON: Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq pronounced his side will merit to be a world’s top-ranked Test group after they came from behind to pull a four-match array 2-2 in England.
Their 10-wicket thrashing of a hosts in a fourth and final Test during The Oval on Sunday gave Pakistan, now third in a standings, a possibility of climbing to a tip of a table.
But for that to occur after this month they need Sri Lanka to win 2-0 or 3-0 during home to Australia, joined with a 2-0 or 2-1 array win for India divided to a West Indies.
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Pakistan’s feat is all a some-more considerable as they have not played a Test array on home dirt given an armed conflict on Sri Lanka’s group train in Lahore in 2009 incited a nation into a no-go area for a world’s heading Test nations.
The United Arab Emirates has given turn their adopted base.
But for all their success in conditions identical to those on home soil, Pakistan mostly find themselves confronting in a dispiriting position of personification before small crowds rather than in front of their possess ardent supporters.
“This group deserves that (going to array one) for 6 years of no cricket during home, infrequently people consider it’s easy — a UAE suits us, we win — though usually removing each day divided from a country, though family and friends and all games out of Pakistan, it’s unequivocally difficult,” Misbah told reporters during The Oval on Sunday after Pakistan won with some-more than a day to spare.
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“It’s mentally tough — I’ve usually seen my mom and sister once in a year, some friends we haven’t seen for 3 or 4 years.
“It’s not easy, given those resources though a group is personification rival cricket.
“I am unequivocally unapproachable of them and this group unequivocally deserves to be array one.”
Pakistan’s success during The Oval — that was achieved on a 69th anniversary of a country’s substructure as an eccentric state — was built on a shining 218 by Younis Khan, a hundred from Asad Shafiq and 5 second-innings wickets for leg-spinner Yasir Shah.
It was an generally considerable outcome given that after their 75-run win in a initial Test during Lord’s — where 42-year-old skipper Misbah done a hundred — Pakistan had suffered complicated defeats, by 330 and 141 runs, during Old Trafford and Edgbaston respectively.
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But Misbah was even happier with his side’ control on their initial debate of England given a argumentative outing in 2010 saw mostly stretched Anglo-Pakistani cricket family penetrate to an all-time low.
That debate featured a barbarous ‘spot-fixing’ Test during Lord’s where afterwards captain Salman Butt, gait bowler Mohammad Amir and Mohammad Asif were all given five-year bans and jail terms for deliberately bowling no-balls.
This year’s array saw Amir make his Test lapse during Lord’s and he had to understanding with a peculiar throng scream of “no-ball”.
But there were no on-field flare-ups between Misbah’s group and an England side led by Alastair Cook.
“Cricket matches are won and mislaid though to win audience, people, supporters — that’s important,” pronounced Misbah, who took over as captain 6 years ago shortly after a spot-fixing scandal.
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“This array has been (played) in good spirits, both teams fought well.
“There were no off margin issues — we are happy to interpretation on a appreciative note, 2-2, everybody enjoyed it, we done friends on and off a field.”
Cook added: “It’s been a good array to be partial of, dual good teams personification good cricket and for once with Pakistan and England we’ve usually talked about a cricket.”
Amir took 12 wickets in a array during an costly normal of 42 though his total would have been distant improved had Pakistan hold all a chances a left-arm discerning created.
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“He did OK — he was detrimental also, a lot of catches (five) were forsaken off his bowling,” pronounced Misbah.
“But altogether his poise and opinion and committment… that helped a Pakistan team.”