The two teams meet in a three-match one-day series starting here today, followed by as many Twenty20 internationals.

Misbah said his players will make an extra effort to register a series win which has eluded them since Pakistan’s 2-1 win in Australia in 2002. “Of course, whenever there is such a thing it charges the team in an extra way, it needs an extra effort to combine and beat an opponent who we have not beaten for some time,” Misbah said yesterday.