Misbah "glad" as Pakistan achieve top rank

Misbah "glad" as Pakistan achieve top rank

LAHORE: Pakistan Test commander Misbah-ul-Haq has said accomplishing top Test positioning for Pakistan surprisingly is something to be extremely glad for and the whole country is charmed over this exceptional deed. 

On Monday, Pakistan with 111 focuses topped the ICC positioning after the last fourth Test match amongst India and the West Indies finished in agreeable draw at Port of Spain because of downpour. 

"To best the table, which brags some incredible groups and players, is something to be extremely pleased with. This is the thing that cricketers play for and need to accomplish in their vocations," Misbah said. 

"I need to compliment everybody who has been included all the while, including every one of the players, the bolster work force, the administration, and in addition our devoted fans and adherents who stayed focused on us and kept on sponsorship and backing the side through the great and not all that great days. 

"For us, the main positioning is not a destination but rather part of a voyage. Our long haul target and technique is to stay aggressive, keep on challenging the top sides with great cricket and by and by turn into the most took after side like the Pakistan groups of yesteryears. 

"On the off chance that we can accomplish these on a steady premise, then I am certain there will be more shrubs like this down the line," said Misbah who is the best Test skipper of Pakistan with 22 Test triumphs surprisingly since expecting the charge in 2010 after the notorious spot-altering trick at Lord's that saw three players - Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Aamir - getting long bans and a jail term each. 

Driving the side cleverly with a cool personality and a calm demeanor, Misbah has been a genuine savior for Pakistan cricket in the previous couple of years. 

At the season of assuming control over the mantle of captaincy, Misbah was in control in every one of the three organizations. 

In any case, he surrendered the T20 captaincy in 2014 when PCB administrator Zaka Ashraf took a questionable choice to delegate Mohammad Hafeez for the post. 

In 2015, Misbah who drove Pakistan in the ODI World Cup in Australia-New Zealand, additionally surrendered the one-day captaincy and center request batsman Azhar Ali was named in his place. 

It is, undoubtedly, surprisingly that even at the ready age of 42, he is still in extraordinary frame and is the fittest player in the side who keeps on driving the Test group to transcendence. 

The ICC Chief Executive David Richardson, while praising the Pakistan, said on Monday that achieving the summit was exceptionally merited for Misbah and his men and a demonstration of the nature of cricket Pakistan has reliably played in the course of recent years. 

"The previous couple of weeks of Test cricket have been fantastically retaining with some brilliant focused arrangement being played, showing what is so extraordinary about Test cricket," the ICC boss said.