Every team goes through a lean patch.

Inzamam-ul-Haq

Categorized in : Through Every Lean Team

Cricket is a team game. No individual can just say he can win it on his own.

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It is never easy for a professional cricketer, who has represented his country for 17 years, to forget the past and adopt a new lifestyle.

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We have to keep our feet on ground, stay humble, and collect all praise, well-wishes, and prayers because these will help us in future.

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As chief selector, I did my best to pick new talent and give them proper opportunities, as they are the future of Pakistan cricket.

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Imran never lost faith in us as players, individually and as a team, and that gave us the confidence to win. He was a leader par excellence, and Pakistan have seen none like him.

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The pressure of an India-Pakistan game is immense.

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Being chief selector has been the most challenging role of my cricket career, as I was heavily criticised for my decisions, and I couldn't respond much.

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I can't leave cricket. It is my passion.

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It is not my domain to speak on pitches, but they play an important role in producing quality players in every format.

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Once you start feeling the pressure, you start to struggle. That is the beauty of Indo-Pak cricket contests.

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A tour to India is different from other tours. The expectations to win are very high from our own people, and defeats and poor performances are not forgotten easily.

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Regardless of where we play, we should play India on regular basis.

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Throughout my career, we beat India in many matches, but for some reason, we never managed to get the better of them in World Cup matches, and it remains a disappointment for me.

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The pressures of playing in the World Cup are different, but it was because we coped with them in 1992 under Imran Khan's guidance and influence that we won the Cup.

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I don't have a magic wand, and there is a lot we need to do right in Pakistan cricket to build a strong team.

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I have told the PCB that I want total independence to work with a free mind and pick the best players, and they have assured me it will be done.

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I want to develop an atmosphere where the selectors, captain, and coach are on the same page because, unless this happens, there will be no turnaround in our cricket.

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In the past, when we toured countries like Australia or South Africa, we struggled, but we also got to learn a lot, and we learnt to cope with pressure.

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I think there is no better way for our players to improve and learn to perform under pressure than playing regularly with India.

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I have one regret that whenever I look at the list of world's leading scorers, I don't see any Pakistani who has scored 10,000 Test runs; even I couldn't do it ,nor Muhammad Yousuf.

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