Azhar Ali confident of win in Dubai Test against England

Talented number three batsman, Azhar Ali is confident of Pakistan’s victory in the ongoing third Test against England. Azhar steered his team to a commanding position by hitting a fabulous ton in the second innings.

His hundred ton helped Pakistan set a challenging target of 324 runs. At the end of third day, the Englishmen were at 36/0; however, with in-form Saeed Ajmal and Abdur Rehman in the opposition, it will be uphill task for the tourists to avoid a 3-0 clean-sweep.

Azhar, whose 157-run-knock was the highlight of the Day-3, is pretty believes the Men in Blue have enough paint in their bucket to whitewash the Poms.

"We are hundred percent confident to win the match but obviously we have to take 10 wickets," said Azhar.

“We know it’s a good total and batsmen will feel pressure but we just can’t sit back because one good partnership can take match away from us. We have world class spinners and the manner in which wickets are falling if we get two-three out you will see flurry
of wickets and their batting is under lot of pressure so we need breakthroughs," added the young one-down batsman.

England were bowled out for mere 141 runs in the first innings, but Graeme Swann is hopeful for a turn around this time. The classy off-spinner grabbed three wickets in the second innings, and felt that a nice performance on the third day has boosted the
confident of his teammates.

"It is a great end of the day. We got just rewards for our perseverance with the ball. It would have been a tricky period for the openers but they have calmed the storm and set us for a good chase tomorrow," stated the off-spinner.

He added, "I would like not to block against the ball like we did in the last game and destroy us again. I think each of the batsmen will come up with plans different from the Abu Dhabi debacle.”

After the in-progress Test series, the two teams are set to meet in four ODIs, and three Twenty20 internationals.

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Posted by Rana Nasir Ghafoor on Feb 6 2012. Filed under Pakistan, Sports. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry