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Salman Ali Agha, Pakistan’s new T20 captain, guarantees a fearless method with a younger squad for the New Zealand tour beginning March 16. Shadab Khan is vice captain.
Salman Ali Agha (R) and Aaqib Javed at a joint press-conference. (AP Picture)
Pakistan’s new T20 captain Salman Ali Agha on Tuesday promised a brand new method within the shortest format, saying his group will play fearless cricket because it prepares for the upcoming tournaments.
Agha, who was on Tuesday named Pakistan captain for the five-match T20I tour of New Zealand starting March 16, mentioned the selectors had picked a brand new look aspect as a result of there was a must play fearless cricket.
“I’m honoured to be Pakistan captain however it is usually a problem for me. We have now principally picked children within the T20 squad. My job is to get gamers to play fearless and excessive danger cricket,” he mentioned after his appointment.
“We’ll clearly face failures however all of us must help these gamers. They’d be informed to play freely. These days there isn’t any different choice within the T20 format than to play fearless cricket.”
He mentioned there was a must play with a unique mindset in T20s and the chosen gamers can be assured they won’t be dropped even when they face some failures.
“Having Shadab Khan as vice captain will even be good as he and I feel with the identical aggressive mindset and we are going to collectively attempt to groom attacking gamers.”
Agha additionally defended the choice of Shadab within the T20 squad, saying Pakistan had been brief on high quality all-rounders in Take a look at and white-ball codecs.
“Shadab has expertise and these days you want gamers who may bat with their wrist spin.”
Interim head coach Aaqib Javed made it clear that whereas Babar Azam and Muhammad Rizwan had been dropped from the T20 squad, they don’t seem to be out of the image for the longer term assignments.
“We at the moment are making an attempt to deal with a pool of 24-25 gamers trying to the Asia Cup and World Cup and we won’t simply depend upon the 15-16 chosen for this tour.”
The Asia Cup can be held later this yr whereas the T20 World Cup can be staged in 2026.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – PTI)
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Lahore, Pakistan