Pakistan Eye Balance In Tri-Series 2025
The stand-in captain of Pakistan, Salman Ali Agha, has reiterated his desire to focus on young talent while maintaining a winning mentality as Pakistan hosts Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe in a 12-day T20I home tri-series starting Wednesday. In his speech at the pre-series press conference, Agha emphasised that the team’s success is not negotiable.
Agha reiterated the importance of exposure, the need to manage pressure, flexibility, and role definition, noting that the squad has 15 members and the ambition is to use all players at some point. Nonetheless, he said that no global team in T20 cricket can be discounted and that Pakistan needs to balance exploration and outcomes as ICC events are imminent in the next cycle.
The changed team for the tri-series was not much different from the home T20I assignment against South Africa in the recent past, except that Abdul Samad has replaced Hasan Nawaz, who is still on a long streak of poor performances. Despite his formidable 56-run performance against the UAE in Sharjah in September, Hasan did not reach or pass the twenties in his last six T20I starts.
Another concern that Agha recognised was that of batting, which is middle-order inconsistency, when Agha admitted that Pakistan have not been performing well in closing out innings with a purposeful mind and match awareness. He gave strong hints that Samad would have been included in the team by dictating that the team needs to be composed, and needs to take shots without fear but with intelligence.
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