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Captain Pakistan Misbah-ul-Haq has warned his players against taking Bangladesh an easy target.
“It would be a big folly on our part to think we can walk over Bangladesh. We are playing a full series in Bangladesh after a long time and I have told the players to treat the series as a top ones because there will be lot of pressure on us,” said the seasoned batsman ahead of the series-opening Twenty20 encounter.
On the other side Bagladesh captain were looking confident and said that “West Indies were favourites against us as we don’t usually play Twenty20s. At the end of the day, we bowled well and despite a hiccup in batting we finished as winners,”.
Rahim warned Pakistan that his team will go all out for wins rather than just respectable losses against them in the series.
Pakistan do not want to change the combination that beat Sri Lanka on November 25.
While the hosts are without Mohammad Ashraful, who played in the West Indies T20. Mahmudullah who missed that game should come in for him.
The two sides will also play three one-dayers and two Test matches in Pakistan’s tour of Bangladesh.
Pakistan (possible): 1 Mohammad Hafeez, 2 Imran Farhat, 3 Asad Shafiq, 4 Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), 5 Umar Akmal (wk), 6 Shoaib Malik, 7 Shahid Afridi, 8 Sohail Tanvir, 9 Aizaz Cheema, 10 Umar Gul, 11 Saeed Ajmal
Bangladesh (possible): 1 Tamim Iqbal, 2 Imrul Kayes, 3 Alok Kapali, 4 Shakib Al Hasan, 5 Mushfiqur Rahim (capt & wk), 6 Mahmudullah, 7 Nasir Hossain, 8 Naeem Islam, 9 Abdur Razzak, 10 Rubel Hossain, 11 Shafiul Islam
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