Pakistan's interim coach Mohsin Khan has insisted his side are determined to win the third and final Test against England in Dubai to claim a three-nil series clean sweep.
Mohsin's team beat the world's top-ranked Test side by 10 wickets in the first match in Dubai and then followed it up with a 72-run win in the second Test in Abu Dhabi.
England, though, have vowed to bounce back in the series finale in Dubai, but Moshin is adamant that his team want to maintain their good form as they are "desperate" to whitewash Andrew Strauss' side.
"Confidence is high obviously after winning both matches but Dubai is a fresh start for all, the scores still start at 0 for 0 for both teams and what has happened in the previous two matches is irrelevant," he told PakPassion.net.
"I do not need to look at the rankings table to tell me that England is a very professional team, a very balanced team with no weaknesses at all in any facet of their cricket.
"They will once again be tough opposition for us and we will not be taking the opposition lightly, we will have to work very hard and approach the third Test match just in the same way as we have approached the previous two Test matches.
"We are desperate to see a three-nil margin, but no Test victory comes easy and nobody has a given right to win any Test match. I have a lot of respect for Andy Flower, Andrew Strauss and all of the England players and I am sure England will come back hard at us."
Confidence in the Pakistan camp will no doubt be high after their sensational win in the second Test in Abu Dhabi.
The hosts were bowled out for 214 to leave England with a target of 145, but Strauss' team fell short by 72 runs on the back of spinner Abdur Rehman's career-best six-wicket haul.
Moshin feels the performances of players like Rehman are down to the work they are putting in off the field.
"There is a lot of healthy competition now in Pakistan cricket for places in the starting eleven in every format," he said.
"Abdur Rehman is a perfect example of this way of thinking, he knows that he has worked extremely hard to get to the level he is at now and that he has no intention of letting his form dip and his fitness levels to drop.
"He is such a hard working cricketer, he has a great work ethic and is always ready to do extra training and additional bowling. There are times when he just wants to practice his bowling continually for hours and to work on his fitness.
"Rehman and all of the other members of the squad work extremely hard in training on their fitness to ensure that they are fit and ready for the next match.
"Two of the "elder statesmen" in the squad, Younis Khan and Misbah-ul-Haq know that age is catching up with them but you simply cannot criticise their levels of fitness, they work so hard in training and they are an asset to the team and shining examples for others to follow."




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