Exclusive | Pak a weak team; gulf between IPL & PSL is massive: Ex-Pak captain

TimesofIndia.com successful Dubai: Former Pakistan skipper Rashid Latif has called India steadfast favourites to triumph their Super Four brushwood against Pakistan successful the ongoing Asia Cup. The 2 teams volition beryllium gathering again connected Sunday aft an eventful clash past week and the hostility is expected to stay precocious erstwhile the players instrumentality the tract astatine the Dubai International Stadium.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!"There is simply a batch of hostility betwixt India and Pakistan, and present it has reached the crushed arsenic well, which was not the lawsuit earlier," Rashid Latif told TimesofIndia.com successful an exclusive interview.A batch is happening disconnected the tract excessively and Pakistan person cancelled their pre-match press-conference for the 2nd clip successful a row. No 1 seems to cognize the nonstop crushed but determination has been nary dearth of play successful the multi-nation event."Don’t cognize what is happening," said Latif.

The erstwhile Pakistan skipper Latif feels that successful T20Is anyone tin triumph connected their time but admits India are excessively strong."In T20, thing tin happen. Oman played precise good yesterday. It's hard to prime favourites successful T20Is. In ODIs and Tests, you tin accidental who is favourite and who is not. But successful T20Is, you can’t. But if we look successful hindsight, India is simply a beardown team," helium added.Latif credited India’s robust home set-up and the Indian Premier League (IPL) for the side's domination crossed formats.

"The contention (IPL) Indian players play is of precocious quality. Pakistan plays successful the PSL. There is simply a gulf of quality betwixt IPL and PSL."The quality betwixt the 2 sides is besides the experience. This Indian squad is besides a spot inexperienced with elder players similar Rohit, Virat and Jadeja retiring. And adjacent though they don’t person overmuch experience, they person played immoderate high-quality cricket," helium said.

Latif called Pakistan a anemic squad due to the fact that of their fragile batting bid and it has been evident with their mediocre starts.

Opener Saim Ayub is yet to unfastened his relationship successful this tourney and has registered 3 ducks. Captain Salman Ali Agha has scored 0, 3, and 20 successful their 3 outings.Sahibzada Farhan, picked for his assertive batting, has looked each astatine sea. Pakistan are dilatory sliding Hasan Nawaz down the order. Once an opener, helium batted astatine No. 4, and is present coming successful astatine 5 oregon 6. Hasan entered the Asia Cup arsenic Pakistan’s astir promising batter but is present being reduced to a lower-order role."Pakistan looks similar a anemic squad and everyone tin spot it. But you can’t constitute them disconnected arsenic well. It is 75-25 to India. India are favourites," Latif said."You sometimes spot 1 subordinate not successful form, but for Pakistan, the script is different. Saim Ayub is not successful form, skipper Salman Ali Agha is not successful form, Mohammad Haris is struggling, Sahibzada Farhan is not looking successful touch, Hasan Nawaz is struggling. If 5 of the apical six batters are struggling, past it gets difficult," helium added.Latif feels the lone mode Pakistan tin bushed India is if 1 of their batters has an exceptional day; otherwise, connected paper, India looks a unit to reckon with."Only idiosyncratic brilliance tin assistance Pakistan win. Kisi ne kar diya toh kar diya (if idiosyncratic has that benignant of a day, past it’s fine). No uncertainty India is simply a precise beardown squad and it volition beryllium hard for Pakistan to registry a triumph against India," helium concluded.