'We've learned lessons' - Dasthakir

Mohammed Dasthakir , the dubai zahirians skipper is confident that the lessons Zahirians have learned from their tour of the Ajman CC  will stand them in good stead when they arrive in Nad-al-Shiba second week of April 2010 for two short format matches.Zahirians lost the last Match against Ajman CC in the WLP, with the home batsmen unable to counter the hosts' pace attack. But Dasthakir, the team skipper, has been encouraged by the improvement his team has shown over the course of the game and feels they will have benefited from the learning experience.

While Dasthakir accepted that Zahirians's batsmen had struggled throughout the last couple of months, he felt their improved performances since the start of the year 2012.Ayyub Padladka, for example, having averaged just 19.16 in the few months ago, bounced back with successive two half centuries in the middle of December 2010 and finished this match with an average of 26.66.Mohammed Irshad figures for the same game - 13.50 and 22.75 - tell a similar story. Mohammed Rafeek, having come into the side, also impressed with a unbeaten match-defining innings of 40 to win the second match in Janaury 2012.

"We've learned some good lessons from that game and earn experience. You can see some of the learning coming out in some of the batsmen at the moment - which is great to see - it would be very disappointing to go through those tough experiences and not come out the other side as better players, but I think some of them are coming out the other side as better players."A good example would be Ayyub Padladka who has turned round his form. He has shown us a different method in that game.played as a finisher. He has worked very hard re-jigging his method and it's nice to see that it's working for him. It's nice to see him playing as confidently as he is playing at the moment; that's great to see.

"The experience that those guys will have gained in a pressure situation against very good opposition in these conditions will be absolutely vital to their growth and to our growth as a side.and how quickly we learn - is vital to our chances in Nad-al-Shiba. it will be a different type of game and a different type pitch.So we have to make the most use of this next one and then we move on to different counditions of the game at the start of the summer. But this experience out here has been great for us."