Pakistan’s Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi on Thursday said he hoped a tough international Twenty20 draw might motivate his crew to win the title for the first time in seven years and beat arch-rival India along the way.
The 2009 champions are located in institution 2 of the extremely good Ten round in the sixth version of the arena T20 to be held from March eight – April three 2016, at the side of hosts India, Australia, New Zealand, and a yet to be determined qualifier.
Their second in shape can be towards India, a group they've never overwhelmed in either a conventional one-day world Cup or the more recent global T20.
Afridi stated: “we have a tough draw but i'm hopeful that this venture will pump-up my group to win the identify and on the way beat India.”
Pakistan misplaced to India in each the institution round and very last of the inaugural world T20 in 2007 and then in subsequent tournaments.
They've additionally misplaced to India each time they have got faced them in six international Cups.
But Afridi said it was time for a exchange. “I don’t need to stay in records,” he stated. “anything errors we generally make within the suits towards India we've got to triumph over them.”
Pakistan’s recent form does not augur well. Last month they lost to England 3-zero in a T20 collection within the United Arab Emirates, slipping to 6 inside the scores.
“We made college boy mistakes and regardless of putting up exact fights in all three suits we misplaced with the aid of narrow margins so we must be on our toes and should no longer repeat the ones errors,” said Afridi, who is set to attract the curtain on his -decade long profession after the occasion.
Pakistan have 3 T20 fits on their tour of latest Zealand subsequent month earlier than featuring in the six-nation Asia Cup T20 in Bangladesh in February.
“we've sufficient suits before the world T20 so we have to discover a settled mixture and i desire we do well in those matches and bring that form into the world T20.”
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