LAHORE: Pakistan's top Test batsman Younis Khan has brushed aside the threat posed by England's in-form pace attack as his team prepare to return to the scene of an infamous spot-fixing scandal in 2010.
Khan said Pakistan's familiarity with the likes of Stuart Broad and James Anderson would blunt their potency when they open a four-Test series at Lord's on July 14.
The 'home of cricket' will provide a tough opening environment for Pakistan after the spot-fixing case of 2010, which ended with jail terms for young fast bowler Mohammad Amir and two other players.
Amir, now 24, is back in Pakistan's squad after completing a ban from cricket but Khan said his team-mates now wanted to put the past behind them and enjoy playing at the historic London ground.
"It is always a pleasure whenever you play in Lord's," told AFP at a dinner organised by Britain's High Commission in Lahore.
"The tradition and using that dressing room and that ground... in my mind it's always a challenge and a pleasure for me so playing cricket in England is all about that."
England's fast bowlers combined to take 33 wickets between them in their recent 2-0 rout of a Sri Lankan side missing recent retirees such as Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene.
Anderson's 21 wickets came at a phenomenal 10.8 runs apiece, but Khan, the lynchpin of Pakistan's batting for more than a decade, said his team would not roll over as easily.
"No doubt about Anderson and Broad -- they are the top bowlers these days. But we play regularly against Broad and Finn and Anderson," he said.
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