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Hasan Ali looking to disturb teammate James Anderson at Lancashire

Hasan Ali looking to disturb teammate James Anderson at Lancashire. Pic/Lancashire County
Hasan Ali looking to disturb teammate James Anderson at Lancashire. Pic/Lancashire County

Srinagar, April 13: Pakistan pacer Hasan Ali has said that he is excited to share dressing room with England legend James Anderson at Lancashire county and will try to learn from him.

Hasan Ali will be available for the County for first six matches of the 2022 County Championship.

While speaking to the club’s press day, Hasan Ali told ESPNcricinfo that he would “take a lot of wickets” and that he was excited to be back at Emirates Old Trafford, the ground where he made his T20I debut in 2016.

“Honestly, it’s too cold for me,” he said, laughing. “But yeah, I have to adjust. I would like to thank the Lancashire management for the opportunity. I’m very excited and looking forward to sharing the dressing room with their players; obviously we have Jimmy bhai, Jimmy Anderson, so I’m very happy and very excited”.

“Honestly, I never spoke with him before. But now I’m going to have a lot of questions to ask him. I’m going to disturb him. [Laughs] We know he’s a great bowler. He swings the ball both ways. I’m going to learn how he swings the ball both ways, especially the cross-seam ball. I’m going to learn it.”

Hasan also spoke about the talk he had with Saqib Mahmood, another of his new team-mates, for Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League (PSL).

“Saqib spoke with me this morning,” he said. “He told me the ball reverses here. We know how to reverse the ball as Pakistan bowlers, since childhood, we used the reverse-swing because they’re tough conditions for the bowlers in Pakistan, dry conditions. It’s similar here. I know the weather is chill, but the square is dry and the wicket is dry so hopefully [I will] get some reverse.

“I played with Saqib bhai for Peshawar Zalmi. He’s a good guy, an exciting player. He just got his Test debut and I’m happy for him. [In the 2021 PSL] he was the best bowler when he left the team. He couldn’t come back [for the second half of the season in the UAE], but he’s a good player.

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