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Misbah happy with
Pakistan’s ‘special wins’
P
akistan captain Misbah-ul Haq termed
the one-day victories over South Africa and Sri Lanka as “special
wins” which meant his team
ended a tough year on a high.
Pakistan beat South Africa
I think it was a tough
year for us but the
two series we won
in South Africa and
now against Sri
Lanka, they are very
special and ended
our year on a high
note
two wickets in Abu Dhabi,
Misbah said the series win
was satisfying.
“I think it was a tough year
for us but the two series we
won in South Africa and now
against Sri Lanka, they are
very special and ended our
year on a high note,” Misbah
said after Friday’s game.
The win over Sri Lanka was
Pakistan’s seventh one-day
series win this year -- their
best-ever in a calendar year -which also included a 2-1 victory against India in January.
“We did struggle in the
middle of the year,” said Misbah of Pakistan’s loss in the
Champions Trophy in June
in England.
“We have to improve our
fielding because we had Friday’s match in our hands but
we let it go because of poor
fielding.”
Misbah hit a solid 51 to end
the year with 1373 runs in 34
one-days -- the highest by any
player in 2013 -- to lead Pakistan to 232 all out. Sri Lanka
sneaked through in the final
over with Dinesh Chandimal
hitting an unbeaten 64.
Sri Lankan captain Angelo
Mathews showed disappoint-
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2-1 last month - their firstever one-day series win over
the Proteas - before clinching
the Sri Lanka series 3-2 on
Friday.
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rom a total World Tradi- (WKA), two of the largest bodies
The Rochdale based club retional Karate & Kickbox- for martial arts in the world.
turned with 46 Gold, 59 Silver and
ing Association (WTKA)
There were around 90 countries 50 Bronze medals in all. “SpeEngland Squad of 80 mem- represented with nearly 5000 com- cialised tuition specific to meet
bers, 20 athletes of various ages rep- petitors in Carrara Fiery, Massa the needs of the event along with
resented The DOJO Karate Centre (near Pisa) in Italy. While everyone the desire to perform better than
(Rochdale), but they returned with performed well, it will certainly be anyone else and high self-belief inmore than half of the total medals a Championship to remember, de- stilled into our squad was the key
won by the loss.
to our ath and Jayawardene in the
success this time” said Senment over the series England team (155 from spite many shortcomings, under fourth
the first game was very won the third and
302).
of WTKA England sei
“We were good enough crucial, we lost the guidance matches to take an unbeat-Ansari.
that by 11
one-days but they will back
As it was the Unified World Mar- Chief that able 3-1 lead.
For preparation for this event the
to get over it but I think runs and had we wonTraditional Coach Sensei Irfor the Tests and so we will
Championships from
members had been getting
we weretial Arts near our game we wouldfan Ansari, Team DOJO said hisre- Squadbe at our full strength and we
nowhere
have been
Mathews coped team will
ally well both on and competitive in extra will be from Sensei Ansari
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