Pakistan's head coach Waqar Younis has said that he wanted to stop the over dependence on spinners in the national cricket team and prepare a strong pace battery for the future series.
The former captain, who is having a second stint as head coach of the national team, told a news conference in Lahore that he would ensure there was not much dependence on the spinners in the upcoming tour to Sri Lanka, while the pace bowlers should also play a big role in the team planning.
Waqar said he had started working personally with the pace bowlers, who are picked up in the national team for the Sri Lanka tour.
"Pakistan has a proud history of fast bowling and I want to nurture and groom the talent that is available now," he said, adding, "we have good young pace talent and they can be developed."
Waqar formed a formidable new ball partnership with Wasim Akram. Apart from them, there were other world class pacers such as Fazal Mahmood, Sarfaraz Nawaz, Imran Khan, Shoaib Akhtar, Muhammad Asif and Muhammad Aamir.
But in the last two years, the team has developed a strong reliance on the spin bowlers, particularly in Test matches with off spinner Saeed Ajmal and left arm spinner Abdul Rehman doing the bulk of the bowling and sharing wickets.
