"We all know that Sri Lanka is always good and we are looking forward to a very tough series," Hafeez said at a media conference held a few hours after the team's arrival on Monday for a seven-week tour.
He said, "We have experience playing them in the recent past and had good success against them, I personally feel the boys have worked really hard in the last one and a half months. Although we were not playing any international cricket (recently) some of the guys were doing their own training and the PCB arranged some matches for us to get match practice."
Sri Lankan captain Mahela Jayawardene said that it was a good challenge for his team to play Pakistan at home. "If you take their performances in the last six months they have performed well in all three formats. Jayawardene said, "To play them in our conditions is a good challenge, We must move forward from the series against England. One-day cricket is important to us and also the T20 because in another 3-4 months we have the World T20 so the T20 matches against Pakistan and the two we will play against India in July are extremely important to us."
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