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Waqar blames batsmen for team's heavy defeat against SA in UAE T20 opener | Following Pakistan's six-wicket defeat against South Africa in their opening Twenty20 match in the UAE, Pakistan cricket coach Waqar Younis has said that his players did not perform to their potential, and
that the batting was a complete letdown. "It would have been good to win. We did
not play to our potential and did not bat well either," The News quoted Waqar,
as saying. "We were another 30-35 runs short. In Twenty20 these runs can make
a huge difference," he added. The coach, however, was upbeat about his team's
bowling in the match. "I'm pleased with the bowling performance. They really struck
in and gave the best shot," he said, adding, "There were not enough runs on the
board to defend." On Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi's 'erratic' way of getting
out at a very crucial juncture, especially as he had just lofted two consecutive
sixes, Waqar said that the T20 format was "all about hitting big shots." "I agree
that after hitting two big sixes, Afridi could have taken it easy and probably
scored a single and taken his time... But that's the way he plays and I'm sure
he himself believes that he played a silly shot," the former pace bowler said.
Disagreeing with critics that Pakistan's batting in recent months had been a total
failure, Waqar pointed out that they had won two matches against Australia in
England, and had "played and batted pretty well in the one-dayers there." "It's
just that we did not develop a partnership in this game today. We still managed
to get 119, and as I said earlier another 30-plus runs could have made the difference,"
he said. "We can make strategies and we did it for this match as well, but we
really did not achieve it today," he added.
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