Watch Pakistan captain Salman Ali Agha address the media in Dhaka ahead of the thrilling Pakistan vs Bangladesh T20I Series 2025. He shares his thoughts on team preparation, key players to watch, match strategy, and expectations for the highly anticipated series. Don’t miss this exclusive press conference from the heart of the cricket action!
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00:00It's a way condition for us obviously and Bangladesh at any stadium, any ground, any country is a very good side and when it's come to home they are very very good side and we know what the challenges are going to be thrown to us and we are up to that and we are very excited here and come here to play.
00:20Two questions for me, in the last three years Pakistan is a very different way where most of the batters took about maybe 20-30 balls to get their innings done, only two batters to play they did for the club.
00:35But it was a very aggressive approach and a new approach, would you like to carry it into a different condition?
00:40That's a question 1-1 and what will the two uncapped players please tell us about this?
00:46Yeah, we have changed the way we play and that's how we want to play but accessing the condition is always going to be very very key.
00:54We will see what the conditions are and how we want to play and if the condition allows us to play that aggressively we will play and if the condition doesn't allow us to play that way we will try to do what conditions are allowing us.
01:09Our goal is to score above par like 10-15 when we are batting above par and then when we are bowling to make sure we will restrict the teams less than over par.
01:21And two debutants, they are very exciting, they are both fast bowlers and I am very excited to see them and they are very good fast bowlers and I am happy for them to be here and very very excited.
01:34No, there is no added pressure.
02:00There is no added pressure, we just what we focus we don't focus on this stuff like we have one like from the last nine years we just focus on playing a good cricket and the cricket we want to play and at this series we are going to focus on the same thing we just want to play a good cricket in every single game and want to take every box in every single game and this is what our focus is going to be.
02:20Yeah, if doing by that we can win three in every single game it will be more than happy. I study everything on the game.
02:27Captain, you have a good number of players in your sport who have played in the BPA for the first two seasons and also there are two people in the background staff of the Pakistan team who previously worked for the balance national team.
02:39So, are you taking any inputs from them regarding this round, like how it will behave, what is the part score, how the team will come into play, the spacing, but are you taking any inputs from you guys who have played in your work before?
02:51Yes, very important like people, most of the players have played in VPL which is very important obviously to get the input and experience of them and yeah we have talked and we have had a chat with them and they have given their inputs and we have planned according to that.
03:10The T20 is changing day by day. Players like Bava and Benawana are dropped from the T20 side because they play the T20 side because they play the T20 side.
03:21Do you feel it was the main reason that they are being dropped and do you feel that changes are coming day by day and will you infect like the players who play the T20 side like ODI?
03:32They are world class players, they have done so well for Pakistan and they have played the way T20 games should play and but yeah T20 is really good.
03:40It is getting changed every single year, every six months to be honest. But yeah we have the players now like the way we want, we want to play aggressive cricket and with that anyone can play that kind of brand and can come into the team.
03:54But yeah the players we have right now they are very good and very exciting.
03:58Kepes, the wickets meet with all this and it is tricky. Do you think the wickets play the vital role in this cricket?
04:05Of course condition does play a vital role wherever you go because you have to give respect to the condition and play according to that.
04:12So yeah wherever you go I think not only here, wherever you go in the world the conditions will always play a key part.
04:20Last question.
04:22Can you tell us something about your preparation of the practice of the series?
04:27Yeah we had a camp in Karachi, we tried over best to prepare the same kind of pitches which we are going to get here and preparation is very good.
04:36We are very much ready to play a game and entertain the Bangladesh scrub.
04:40Can you explain something about the math scenario based practice, what is that?
04:57We just try to make sure like in the practice we practice what we are going to get in the games.
05:03So that's what the math scenario, we create the scenarios which we are going to get in the games most probably.
05:08And we try to improve our skill by doing that and try to make sure we are game ready before the game.
