Pakistan Test captain Shan Masood said that his team will continue playing an entertaining brand of cricket and also make sure they get the right results in Test cricket as well. Masood, who was addressing the press in Rawalpindi, before their two-match Test series against Bangladesh said that Pakistan are keen on making it to the final of the World Test Championship 2023-25 as well. However, Shan Masood took over the captaincy of the Test team last year and led Pakistan in Australia where they lost to 3-0 by Pat Cummins’s men. However, they earned praise for the brand of cricket that was on display as well.
“Look, I think, first of all. You want your fans and media to write good things about the team. That’s why one of our focuses is to play cricket everyone enjoys watching. It’s a result-oriented business at the end of the day. You have to have results on your mind,” Shan Masood said. “And for us again, we have to look at our position in the World Test Championship. Yes, it was sixth and seventh before. Yes, we would like to obviously play the final this time. So if you want to play in the finals, we have to win our home Test matches. If we have to win that, we have to take 20 wickets consistently. And obviously, our batters should score enough and give the bowlers time to take those 20 wickets.”
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“I feel it’s about playing good and exciting cricket. Look, we all want Test cricket to be fun, Test cricket to be enjoyable, both for the fans and for us players. When we play Test cricket, we want to be excited about it and bring the same enthusiasm we do in any format. Our challenge is to get the right results, and also play a brand of cricket that is consistent and exciting to everyone,” he further added.
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However, Pakistan have not even finished among the top four teams of the World Test Championship in the first two cycles – 2019-21, and 2021-23. Pakistan are currently placed at the sixth in the 9-team table, having won two matches (in Sri Lanka last year) and lost 3-0 in Australia as well. Meanwhile, India are currently on top of the World Test Championship table with 6 wins in 9 matches while Australia are at the second spot with 8 wins from 12 matches as well.
