Imad Wasim: “It does not matter if you bowl early or late”

On the Pakistan cricket team, all-rounder Imad Wasim says that bowlers are sometimes used when it’s not planned.

At a news conference in Birmingham, he said, “We were trying new things in the Ireland series, and now that the World Cup is coming up, our combination is getting set.” Imad Wasim told me I could play the new ball if the conditions were right. It doesn’t look like that; if you put pressure on the other team from the start, it’s easy. Iftikhar and I left too soon; if we hadn’t, we would have reached our goal.

Imad Wasim

He told us that the next time, we’ll try to go and bat because we should have dominated in the middle overs. The point of dominating isn’t to hit, but to keep the other team’s bowler from settling in, so we won’t just talk. Also, show well.