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ICC Champions Trophy: Sarfraz Ahmed says team to put more focus on winning against India

ENGLAND: Pakistan skipper Sarfraz Ahmed has said that the team is hopeful and wants to perform well against India in the Champions Trophy 2017.

“We want to perform well in practice matches against Bangladesh and Australia to get a good boost before the main rounds,” he told journalists during a press conference here on Friday.

 “We are really hopeful,” the wicketkeeper-batsman said. “We will try to play good cricket against India. The whole country wishes that we beat India so we will try to give our 100% in the ground, and we’ll try to fight as much as we can.”

The 30-year-old will be leading the green shirts in his first major tournament and he says he is excited and looking up to the challenge.

“This is my first major tournament as captain, I’m definitely very hopeful and excited about the competition,” he said. “My aim is to play my own game, to not play under pressure and to just play as I do in domestic cricket.”

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.