KOLKATA, India, Oct 30 (Reuters) – Lack of swing in India has taken a lot sting out of the Pakistan tempo assault within the 50-overs World Cup, head coach Grant Bradburn stated forward of Tuesday’s conflict in opposition to Bangladesh.

Pakistan’s semi-final hopes cling in steadiness after simply two wins in six matches and their bowling, normally their robust go well with, has seemed largely pedestrian with Shaheen Afridi failing to supply his greatest kind up to now within the match.

“We have a great resource of fast bowling talent in Pakistan,” Bradburn advised reporters on Monday.

“We do depend on swing, however we’ve not skilled an excessive amount of swing right here.

“The balls are completely different. The situations are completely different and definitely the ball tends to put on lots faster right here.”

The 1992 champions misplaced speedster Naseem Shah even earlier than the beginning of the World Cup by means of a shoulder injury and neither his substitute Hasan Ali nor Haris Rauf may fill that void.

Pakistan’s batting has not been constant both and Bradburn stated one of many prime 4 batters should bat deep in the event that they have been to place up huge totals of their remaining matches.

“The one space that’s key for us is to try to have certainly one of our prime 4 batsmen going by means of into the fortieth over,” he stated.

“We’ve had batsmen which have gotten in and have not gone on. Those are a number of the fundamentals of cricket which are vitally necessary for us.”

Pakistan should win their remaining three group matches and hope different outcomes go their option to make the final 4, a scenario Bradburn known as removed from best.

“We’re ready that we did not need to be,” the New Zealander stated.

“We have been decided at this stage of the match to be in charge of our future however we’re not.

“That hurts the group and all we can do now is control what we can control, and that is prepare well for three remaining pool games and then allow fate to be hopefully leaning on us in terms of our semi-final hopes from there.”

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