Afridi vows better show in Windies

Pakistan Captain Shahid Afridi has said that Pakistan cricket team would demonstrate better performance in the upcoming West Indies (WI) tour as the players are playing cricket with confidence. Afridi in a private news channel interview admitted mistakes that he and his team committed in semi-final of the World Cup, saying the mistakes done in the match let his team down.

Thanking the whole nation for encouraging and supporting cricket team on better performance in the World Cup said: “We will further improve our performance and will not let down the nation during the West Indies tour,” he added.

To a question he said, Junaid Khan would be a match winning bowler in future adding, Umar Gul, Umar Akmal, Wahab Riaz and Asad Shafiq are very good players. To another question he said, Imran Khan as a captain had the support of all the main players of team: “I also enjoy the support of the key players,” he added.

Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi insisted that he had no immediate plans to retire from international cricket.

“While the 2015 World Cup is still a long way away and I am presently looking at the Twenty20 World Cup that will be held next year,” he stated. The semi-final loss to India in the World Cup continues to rankle Pakistan’s ODI captain Shahid Afridi who said it was a mistake to position himself in the lower-half of the batting order in the high-voltage game.

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