LAHORE: Pakistan captain Babar Azam opened up regarding the future of the long-persisted opening pair of him and Mohammad Rizwan, stated that he is not willing to make experiments despite the availability of young top-order batters.
In a pre-series press conference here on Thursday, Babar responded to a question about whether Pakistan will try a new opening pair in the T20I series against New Zealand and shared that there is no such plan to make experiments and the opening pair of him and Rizwan will continue to open the innings for Pakistan in the shortest format.
“There is no such thing that we are going to make experiments. We will continue with my and Rizwan’s opening pair and we will analyze which player is suitable for which particular position and then announce the Playing XI after this practice session,” said Babar.
Pakistan’s captain also commented on Pakistan’s bowling attack and stated that the inclusion of young pacers Ihsanullah and Zaman Khan has further strengthened the attack and shared that the planning is underway to fully utilize the young speedsters.
“Look, the way these two youngsters [Ihsanullah and Zaman Khan] performed in PSL and after that against Afghanistan was outstanding and they got a call-up on the basis of that and because of that our bowling strength bolstered even more,” stated Babar.
“Definitely, we are planning to utilize and establish them because, I said earlier, that we need to test our bench strength and give chances to the youngsters to analyze how we can improve further,” he maintained.
Babar then went on to assert that the national team has the ability to clean sweep the inexperienced New Zealand side, banking on the services of senior and junior players.
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