India reaping rewards for investing in cricketing construction: Former Pakistan skipper Zaheer Abbas

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Pakistan batting nice Zaheer Abbas believes India is reaping wealthy rewards for the funding it made in its cricketing construction within the final decade, a testomony of which is its latest historic triumph in Australia.
“Look at how the Indian team has come up. Today they are winning series in Australia not once but twice in three years,” Abbas stated.

“That has happened because India has invested and planned on their cricket structure a lot in the last decade and today they are reaping the benefits of that hardwork,” he added.
The former captain lamented the decline of Pakistan cricket and stated hardwork was the one answer to success.

“In cricket I’ve at all times believed that it’s how a lot hardwork and time a person participant is keen to place into his recreation that issues probably the most.
“No amount of coaching or advice can make you a top player unless you work hard on your game yourself,” Abbas was quoted as saying in a present on Geo TV.
Abbas, fondly known as ‘Asian Bradman’ for his high-scoring feats, additionally famous that India’s triumph in Australia was all of the extra praiseworthy as a result of it got here within the absence of their common captain Virat Kohli and lots of senior gamers, who have been sidelined with accidents.
Stating that there was no substitute for hardwork, Abbas known as on Pakistani cricketers to work extra on their particular person video games.
“In our times we didn’t have specialised coaches, just mentors. We were expected to work hard and devote time to our training and nets if we wanted to become big players,” he stated.