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Misbah eyes clean sweep

Dubai: Captain Misbah-ul Haq believes routing world No. 1 England 3-0 will be a big achievement but stressed his team will not carry that extra pressure into the third and final Test starting here on Friday.

No team has ever registered a clean sweep in the 58 years of Pakistan-England cricket and Misbah’s team has a good chance of creating history.

“It will be a big achievement for the team (winning 3-0),” said Misbah of the clean sweep which Pakistan last achieved against Bangladesh at home in 2003, while their last against a top Test nation was beating West Indies 3-0 in 1997.

“If we play well like we did in the first two games good results will come but we will not take that extra pressure (of clean sweep),” said Misbah.