Positives Even After Australia Clean Sweep Pakistan

Pakistan completed ODI series against the Aussies yesterday in UAE where they lost by an embarrassing margin of 5-nil. Nevertheless, there are positives even after Australia clean sweep Pakistan and here is a look at a few of them.

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Pakistan Find An Opener In Abid Ali

Abid Ali showed form and class during his century in the fourth ODI and hence, going into the world cup Pakistan now have a backup in him just in case Imam-ul-Haq and especially, Fakhar Zaman fail to fire.

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Clarity With Regard To Pacers’ Selection

Pakistan tested Abbas, Amir, Hasnain, Junaid and Faheem Ashraf during the rubber. All of them for most part returned with ordinary figures while Usman Shinwari turned out to be exceptional. Thus, there is now clarity with regard to pacers’ selection and at least we know that going forward into the world cup Shaheen Afridi, Hasan Ali and Shinwari will be Pakistan’s first choice seamers.

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Choices In The Middle Order

With Mohd. Rizwan and Haris Sohail scoring two centuries each in the five match series; Pakistan now has good back up in the middle order.

Therefore, decent replacements are finally available in case Mohd. Hafeez is unable to regain full fitness and form.