{"id":4088,"date":"2011-07-19T11:02:05","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T11:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/?p=4088"},"modified":"2011-07-19T11:02:05","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T11:05:55","slug":"intikhab-optimistic-about-pakistan-s-future-in-t20-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cricketcountry.com\/news\/intikhab-optimistic-about-pakistan-s-future-in-t20-cricket-4088\/","title":{"rendered":"Intikhab optimistic about Pakistan&#8217;s future in T20 cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"img-caption-wrap img-caption-wrap-left \"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/st3.cricketcountry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cricket\/e616934fa64eb2576ec668038a038718.jpeg\" title=\"Intikhab optimistic about Pakistan's future in T20 cricket\" alt=\"Intikhab optimistic about Pakistan's future in T20 cricket\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imgcaption\"> Pakistan&#8217;s cricket team manager Intikhab Alam says Pakistan&#8217;s domestic cricket has pool of youngsters who are capable of doing well in T20 cricket \u00a9 Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lahore: Jul 18, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan cricket team manager Intikhab Alam is optimistic about the national team&#8217;s future in the Twenty20 cricket as he feels there is a flood of talent in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Intikhab, who is supervising the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) fast track camp in Lahore, said there were chances that the youngsters could be shortlisted to prepare a specialist T20 squad for next year&#8217;s World Cup in Sri Lanka in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan, the losing finalists of the inaugural T20 World Championship in 2007 and the winners in 2009 in England, recently held its first super eights T20 competition in Faisalabad, which saw a number of youngsters making an impact in the absence of leading stars like Shahid Afridi, Abdul Razzaq, Umar Gul and others.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former Test captain said that the national selectors were pretty impressed with the young talent in T20 cricket.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The selectors have already started working on a plan to finalise a pool of players who would eventually form a T20 squad. The future is looking bright,&#8221; Intikhab said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The feeling is that T20 cricket is a young man&#8217;s game and requires a different approach and the youngsters we have seen in the national championship and the camp are pretty good,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Intikhab also said with T20 cricket getting more and more popular and other cricket boards also giving importance to the shortest version of the game, it was a good time for Pakistan to start making preparations.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have some young players who are big hitters and we have seen bowlers equipped to even defend small totals in T20 cricket,&#8221; he noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chief selector, Mohsin Khan who is also in the camp, assisting the batsmen, said he was also impressed with the young talent.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we will soon sit down and decide what to do. We have seen the talent and we have to now shortlist players for T20 cricket,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The second phase of the fast track camp will feature spinners and middle-order batsmen and Mohsin said that would also be an important camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of the youngsters who featured in the first phase seem to be good and eager to shine at the international level.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But obviously time is required to properly assess their worth.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, we are feeling good about the talent we have in T20 cricket,&#8221; Mohsin said.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Test players &#8211; Sarfraz Nawaz, Ijaz Ahmed and Abdul Qadir &#8211; are also working in the camp with the youngsters and discarded players.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The programme is being run by Intikhab, who is also PCB&#8217;s director of game development.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 PTI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pakistan cricket team manager Intikhab Alam is optimistic about the national team&#8217;s future in the Twenty20 cricket as he feels there is a flood of talent in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[20481,18742,23383,5148,459,12556,818,168],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - 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