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India still the favorites: Inzamam
Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq feels that the hosts would still be the favourites for the second Test at Kolkata begining on Wednesday.
Despite his team's herculean effort to hold the Indians in the first Test at Mohali, Pakistan cricket captain Inzamam-ul-Haq feels that the hosts would still be the favourites for the second Test at Kolkata begining on Wednesday.
"In Kolkata, it will be a new game and both the teams will start fresh. The result (at Mohali) has been tremendous for the spirit of the team but the result doesn't mean that we will be favorites," Inzamam told Pakistan's Indus TV in an interview.
"India will once again start at favorites at Kolkata but now they will be aware of our prowess, strength, capacity and fighting skills. As regards Pakistan, the team now realizes that if it can draw the match from a precarious situation, it can also beat the India team," Inzamam said.
Kamran Akmal and Abdul Razzaq featured in a record 184-run seventh wicket partnership to snatch draw from the jaws of defeat in the first Test.
Akmal scored his maiden Test century and became Pakistan's first wicket-keeper to score centuries in both the forms of the game.
The Pakistan skipper said the Mohali Test result had further gelled the team together.
"It (result) has motivate the team and injected a new spirit. Before the Mohali Test, we were a well-knit family but this result has brought us even more closer.
"We made plenty of mistakes by dropping catches and not capitalising on the good starts (on the first couple of days at Mohali). But I am sure that things will dramatically change after the Mohali Test and we should emerge as an improved and different outfit in the matches ahead," he said.
