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The team has been playing good under Misbah-ul-Haq. Barring ODIs against England, they haven't lost a series. The coach Dav Whatmore also knows the [Pakistani] culture very well from his experience in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. I think Pakistani cricket is in safe hands.
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Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka (Sinhalese: ශ්රී ලංකා, Tamil: இலங்கை; known as Ceylon before 1972) is a majority Buddhist island nation in South Asia, located about 31 kilometres (18½ mi) off the southern coast of India. It is often popularly referred to as the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. It is home to more... Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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