Senior batsman and former skipper Mohammad Hafeez said Pakistan's turnaround after their opening Cricket World Cup defeat against the West Indies was purely due to self-belief. Hafeez said the team expressed itself against England at Nottingham and said Pakistan's recent record against the World Cup hosts was not a deterrent. Pakistan play Sri Lanka next at Bristol on June 7. (Video courtesy: ICC)
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00:00 Do you think England were maybe a little bit complacent against you, especially having
00:09 beaten you 4-0 last month?
00:11 I really don't know about them, but I know about myself and I know about my team. We
00:16 were very confident to come into this game. We knew in the last series we played here,
00:21 we were there where we should win a couple of games, but we lost the crucial stages of
00:25 the game. On this track we knew if we can score 340-plus on this track it will be a
00:32 really difficult score to chase on because the pitch was supporting to the seamers and
00:37 also it was not coming onto the bat. Yes, it's a good pitch, but still there was something
00:41 for the baller also, and especially for the spinners. So we believe we got that runs in
00:47 our mind we really wanted to achieve and then the ballers did a great job to restrict them.
00:52 How do you explain the turnaround from 105 all out against the West Indies to 348 for
00:58 eight against England in the space of two matches?
01:01 I can only describe it was total self-belief. Everyone was really looking forward to do
01:06 something in this game. Yes, we played a bad game against the West Indies, but we knew
01:12 as a team we are very much capable to win the matches for Pakistan. We had a good meeting
01:19 the day before. We really expressed some of the good things for each other. We really
01:25 given confidence to each other and that really worked today. We can see everyone really expressed
01:30 themselves and that really worked for Pakistan today.
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