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02-04-2005, 06:50 PM
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Pakistan can upset India in ODIs: sultan
Islamabad, April 1: Pakistan's chief cricket selector feels the team has the ammunition to beat India in the one-day series beginning in Kochi Saturday.
"If our boys display the same kind of spirit and keep doing justice to their talent, I think they have every chance of pocketing the one-day series," former Test wicket-keeper Wasim Bari was quoted as saying by the News Friday.
Bari's confidence emanates from Pakistan's 168-run win in the March 24-28 third and final Test at Bangalore that helped Pakistan level the three-match series 1-1.
"The Indians can be defeated on their own soil. Our boys showed this in the Bangalore Test. They can do it again in the upcoming one-day internationals," Bari said.
The one-day version of the game is quite unpredictable. Still, I feel confident that our boys will do well in the one-dayers as well," he said. "Our team has the talent and the capacity to defeat India. If they play to their abilities there seems no reason why they should not be winning the series."
The Pakistan team consisting mostly of young guns was written off by many critics as the weakest squad ever to tour India. But the Bangalore performance surprised everyone.
The first Test in Mohali was drawn, while India went on to win the second Test at Kolkata by 195 runs.
Admitting that India were a tough team to play in their own back-yard, Bari said the team that would play better cricket on the day would emerge winners and expected most of the games to be close ones.
He said that the morale of the visitors was high after the Bangalore win, and was happy that the boys had justified their selection with their performances.
Bari also drew a parallel with the Pakistani team's performance on the recent tour of Australia. He said that despite losing in the finals of the one-day VB triangular series, the fighting spirit and character they showed to restrict the world-champions to modest totals in both finals in Australia was heartening.
Pakistan can upset India in ODIs: sultan
Islamabad, April 1: Pakistan's chief cricket selector feels the team has the ammunition to beat India in the one-day series beginning in Kochi Saturday.
"If our boys display the same kind of spirit and keep doing justice to their talent, I think they have every chance of pocketing the one-day series," former Test wicket-keeper Wasim Bari was quoted as saying by the News Friday.
Bari's confidence emanates from Pakistan's 168-run win in the March 24-28 third and final Test at Bangalore that helped Pakistan level the three-match series 1-1.
"The Indians can be defeated on their own soil. Our boys showed this in the Bangalore Test. They can do it again in the upcoming one-day internationals," Bari said.
The one-day version of the game is quite unpredictable. Still, I feel confident that our boys will do well in the one-dayers as well," he said. "Our team has the talent and the capacity to defeat India. If they play to their abilities there seems no reason why they should not be winning the series."
The Pakistan team consisting mostly of young guns was written off by many critics as the weakest squad ever to tour India. But the Bangalore performance surprised everyone.
The first Test in Mohali was drawn, while India went on to win the second Test at Kolkata by 195 runs.
Admitting that India were a tough team to play in their own back-yard, Bari said the team that would play better cricket on the day would emerge winners and expected most of the games to be close ones.
He said that the morale of the visitors was high after the Bangalore win, and was happy that the boys had justified their selection with their performances.
Bari also drew a parallel with the Pakistani team's performance on the recent tour of Australia. He said that despite losing in the finals of the one-day VB triangular series, the fighting spirit and character they showed to restrict the world-champions to modest totals in both finals in Australia was heartening.