Misbah-ul Haq’s infamous scoop shot may have cost Pakistan the Twenty20 cricket World Cup but the middle order batsman says he would not hesitate to play the stroke again.

Misbah scooped a Joginder Sharma delivery at short fine leg which fell in the hands of S Sreesanth when Pakistan needed six runs off four balls with one wicket in hand during the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa.
“I will have no problem playing that shot again. You may get out on your favourite shot, batsmen also get out while playing cut and drive,” Misbah said here on Saturday.

“You have to have the confidence of playing that shot again,” he added.
Asked why he scooped the ball at such a crucial juncture, Misbah said he misread the trajectory of the delivery.
“I though it might be a four but the trajectory of that ball was a bit high. It was a bit slow,” he said and admitted that “it took me a long time to overcome what happened thereafter in the T20 final match.”