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His ability to swing the ball both ways and his accuracy have made batsmen struggle against him.

The only positive thing from our side was the performance of our batsmen, particularly Fakhar Zaman, Imam Ul Haq, Babar Azam and Asif Ali.

Perhaps injuries to some of our good batsmen could be reason that the selectors could not have the luxury of doing that.

Babar currently tops the T20 rankings for batsmen as well.

Other batsmen Ibrahim Zadran scored 36 runs, Darwish Rasooli 18 runs, Nisar Wahdat 7 runs, Tariq Stanikzai 5 runs, Qais Ahmad 14 runs, Navid Obaid 2 runs, and Abdul Wasi remained not out after scoring 1 run.

Flower was discontented with the batsmen's performance in the Asia Cup.

Phillip Hughes' death will reopen the decades-long debate on how batsmen can be protected from a potentially lethal five-and-a-half ounce "missile" travelling around 90 miles per hour.

Barker deployed the same ruse then and it left the Notts batsmen, particularly Read, sorely rattled.

Australia yesterday announced just six specialist batsmen in a list of 20 centrally-contracted players ahead of the next 12 months.

Dhoni, who scored 34 himself, believes the team have shown signs of improvement and the outing against Ireland has given his batsmen an opportunity to test their skills.

He said the decision to bat first after winning the toss in the second Test when the batsmen were struggling was also debatable.

C Sansom with 4-42 then led the way as the Nortonthorpe bowlers kept a tight rein on the Cawthorne batsmen who finished on 138-8.