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TimesofIndia.com successful Dubai: Salman Ali Agha has blamed Pakistan's level pitches for his team's consecutive losses against India successful the ongoing Asia Cup.Within a week, Pakistan were hammered doubly by India. In the radical stage, India defeated Pakistan by 7 wickets, and connected Sunday, the Suryakumar Yadav-led broadside registered a thumping six-wicket win.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!In Pakistan's three-match T20I bid against Bangladesh astatine Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium successful May, the Salman Ali Agha-led broadside crossed the 200-run people successful each 3 games. But since then, they person failed to showcase that benignant of intent."The bid you are talking astir (Pakistan vs Bangladesh) was successful Pakistan, wherever the par people is 200. After that we played successful Bangladesh, America (vs West Indies), Sharjah (tri-nation) and present successful Dubai.
These conditions are not for 200. These conditions don't let you to people 200. You person to respect the conditions," helium told reporters.
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"I deliberation the conditions didn’t let america to people 200. If you springiness america bully pitches, past you volition spot the aforesaid batting that you saw against Bangladesh. So, I deliberation determination is simply a batch of quality successful the conditions," helium said.After an explosive start, Pakistan went 37 balls without hitting a boundary.
The skipper defended his batters, saying the Dubai transportation was not casual for caller arrivals. He adjacent cited the illustration of Indian batters. However, Tilak Verma, who walked retired astatine No. 4, scored an unbeaten 19-ball 30 to spot India through."Wickets are specified that it is not casual for a caller batter to travel and play shots straightaway. So, a acceptable batsman should spell till the end. Indian batters besides recovered it hard to work the gait of the wicket.
We mislaid 2 acceptable batters successful that signifier and it derailed our momentum," helium said.In his post-match property conference, Salman Ali Agha looked defensive. He justified sending Hussain Talat up of Mohammad Haris, a earthy hitter."I deliberation that Hussain Talat is simply a precise bully batsman against spin. At that time, we thought that if we kept the close and left-hand combination, it would beryllium hard for the bowlers. And erstwhile you support that combination, it becomes hard for the spinners to settee down," helium said.Pakistan's spearhead Shaheen Shah Afridi had different mediocre crippled against India. Meanwhile, spinner Abrar Ahmed besides looked disconnected colour. The skipper defended the duo, citing their past records."You tin accidental that they had an disconnected day. Both of them person been bowling truthful well. If you are bowling well, past I deliberation it is not a large woody if you person an disconnected day," helium said.The Pakistan skipper was besides grilled for bringing Faheem Ashraf truthful precocious into the attack, adjacent though helium dismissed Shubman Gill successful his archetypal over."We travel our team's plans. We person decided to usage Faheem aft 10 overs due to the fact that his off-cutters and magnitude balls are precise effectual then. That's wherefore helium was truthful effectual today. He bowled precise well."But erstwhile you lose, radical accidental you should person brought a bowler earlier oregon later. Only aft losing, you deliberation astir these things. But what if we had brought him earlier, and helium had leaked runs?" helium said.
