Pakistan have drawn the test match and series against South Africa with recent good form of Captain Misbah ul-Haq, Azhar Ali, Younas Khan, Tofeeq Umar, Muhammad Hafeez and Asad Shafique. Also some non regular batsman showed good temperament like Abdul Rehman, Tanveer Ahmad. Man of Match was AB De Villiars and Man of Series was Kallis.
In the test series Pakistan have shown very good batting technique and useful skills to defeat the bowling attack of South Africa. One more thing is that Pakistan never went on back foot or defensive cricket. All the players played according to the merit and their natural game with very much positive attitude. They looked never confused or in bit hurry as in the near past test matches. This is good sign for Pakistan team.
After this series Pakistan team have to tour Newzealand which will be the last tour before the World Cup 2011. Pakistan have learnt much in this series which might be very useful in the future series.
Pakistan Coach Waqar Younas asked that there should be 3 teams for the three format of cricket. There are many player who are not fit for all types of format so this is much better that according to the game plan we should have different teams for T20, One Day and Test.
This is very good idea in the current situation of Pakistan Cricket Team, in this way Pakistan can produce much talent according to the game type. Like you can not consider Misbah ul Haq, Muhammad Yousaf, Azhar Ali and Tofeeq Omar for T20 or might be not for ODI's. , but these players are wonderful in test matches. Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Abdul Razaq are very good in T20 and ODI but not useful in tests. Same in bowling Shoaib Akhtar, Daneesh Kaneria, Muhammad Sami, Saeed Ajmal, Abdul Rehman are not the bowlers for every type of games. So this is a great idea to pick a player for a game in which he can perform better.
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