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Cricket

England bid to begin anew

First ODI against Pakistan today

AFP, Abu Dhabi
England will bid to put their woeful showing in the Test series behind them when they take on Pakistan in the four-match one-day series which kicks off here on Monday, captain Alastair Cook said Sunday.
Pakistan blanked England 3-0 in Tests on the back of superb performance from their spinners with Saeed Ajmal (24 wickets), Abdul Rehman (19) and Mohammad Hafeez (five) plaguing rival batsmen no end.
Pakistan have been further boosted by the return of leg-spinner Shahid Afridi who took five wickets in their sevenwicket win in the lead-up match against Afghanistan in Sharjah on Friday.
Cook, who took over as captain after the 2011 World Cup, suffered a 5-0 thrashing in India but hoped that loss and defeat in Tests against Pakistan
were forgotten.
"It's been a tough five weeks as aTest tour but this is now a different, fresh side and hopefully we can bring that enthusiasm into the game tomorrow," said Cook on Sunday.
"It was a while ago (losing to India) but we tried as hard as we could and we came up short against India. There's no shame in that but there will be shame if we don't learn from that."
Cook hoped his team would better cope with Pakistan's spinners.
“Certainly the one-day game dictates you have to be more positive and we're not going to have men around the bat all the time so it changes your mentality as a batter, it frees you up," he said.
Cook said Pakistan were deservedly high on confidence.
Pakistan may counter England's ploy of using Pietersen at the top by opening the bowling with left-armer Rehman. Rehman opened the bowling in a World Cup match against Australia last year.
Misbah said his team was confident after winning the Tests, but starts afresh in one-days.
The remaining matches will be played in Abu Dhabi (February 15) Dubai (February 18 and 21). The teams will also play three Twenty20 internationals in Dubai (February 23 and 25) andAbuDhabi (February 27).
SQUADS
PAKISTAN (from): Misbahul Haq (captain), Younis Khan, Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Hafeez, Imran Farhat, Umar Akmal, Asad Shafiq, Adnan Akmal, Umar Gul, Junaid Khan, Aizaz Cheema, Saeed Ajmal, Abdul Rehman, Wahab Riaz, Azhar Ali, Hammad Azam, Shoaib Malik.
ENGLAND (from): Alastair Cook (captain), James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow, Ravi Bopara, Tim Bresnan, Danny Briggs, Stuart Broad, Jade Dernbach, Steven Finn, Craig Kieswetter, Eoin Morgan, Samit Patel, Kevin Pietersen, Graeme Swann, Jonathan Trott.