Bench strength allows Australia to rest top players: Alam.Byline: ANI Lahore, Apr.9 (ANI): Pakistan coach Intikhab Alam Intikhab Alam Khan (Urdu: انتخاب عالم خان) (born December 28, 1941, Hoshiarpur, British India) is a retired Pakistani cricketer who played in 47 Tests and 4 ODIs from 1959 to 1977. has said the Australian Cricket team's bench strength allows them to rest their top players for a series against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates, federation of sheikhdoms (2005 est. pop. 2,563,000), c.30,000 sq mi (77,700 sq km), SE Arabia, on the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. (UAE (Uninterruptible Application Error) The name given to a crash in Windows 3.0. In subsequent versions of Windows, a crash was called a "General Protection Fault," "Application Error" or "Illegal Operation." See crash in Windows and abend. ). Referring to Cricket Australia's (CA) decision to rest Ricky Ponting Ricky Thomas Ponting (born December 19 1974, in Launceston, Tasmania) is an Australian cricketer and current captain of the Australia national cricket team (for both One-Day International and Test cricket). , Mike Hussey, and Mitchell Johnson, Alam said: "Even without three key players, I believe they are a very good side." The Australian selectors have recalled Andrew Symonds, Brett Lee and Shane Watson as replacements. lam, who has recently returned from the UAE after inspecting the pitches in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, said Australia would be tested on the wickets in both the cities as the pitch there would not offer much bounce as they do in South Africa. Australia will directly fly to the UAE after the completion of their current one-day series in South Africa on April 17. He said that Pakistan has the ability to beat the world champions if players give their hundred percent. "Every team is beatable and so is the case with the Australian team and we are fully prepared to take them on. Australia is vulnerable and those who are thinking that Pakistan will badly lose the series are day dreaming," Alam said. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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