“My success elevator is not working right now, but it will”, says Pakistan manager Kwaja Junaid.

Attributing inexperience to his team’s loss to India, Pakistan manager Olympian Kwaja Junaid said that at present his success elevator is not working and it will certainly work within a few months time.

Kwaja was speaking to media after India defeated Pakistan 4-2 in the league match of the ongoing Sultan Azlan Shah Cup in Ipoh, Malaysia.

“Everyone in my country wants to win against India. But India has brought a very experienced senior side, unlike us. There are seven new comers in my team. You can just look at them, they are so young, even I feel there is need for them to undergo a strength training regime. Contrarily, India brought almost the same World Cup team, there are players there with 200, 250 match experience individually”.

“One has to understand, we are in the process of rebuilding, and the Indians are the defending champions, a senior side”, he explained.

“Yes, our success elevator is not working, but it will work in the days to come, we after all focus on Asian Games and Commonwealth Games”, he said.

“Our players are good at counter attacks, as we had to go for counter attacks today after falling behind 1-3 midway through in the second half. But our defence is not good, the habit of ball watching is there, and it is due to inexperience.

“Ball watching is a big problem we are facing now, its mostly habit of debutants”, he reasoned.

“Insofar as our forwards are concerned they are playing as per plan, am happy about it”.

Satisfied with the whatever the boys dished out in the last two matches, the veteran said, “This is not the end, we have to play more matches here and then we have Asian Games and Commonwealth Games this, and will only improve from here on”.

This match is not the end of the road, anyway”, he signed off with a note of optimism.