The Pakistan Cricket Board named a 22-part crew for their forthcoming restricted over arrangement against Zimbabwe. The arrangement gets in progress with the ODIs from October 30 at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium followed by the T20Is, beginning November 7 at the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. For the home arrangement, Pakistan have rested Sarfaraz Ahmed, Mohammad Amir, and Shoaib Malik.
Misbah-ul-Haq, the lead trainer and public selector, expressed that Pakistan Cricket Board is seeking blood in new faces for the T20Is. Both the ODI and T20I arrangement will have three matches each with the apparatuses finishing on November 10.
“We are attempting some new parts in Twenty20s however not in the ODIs in light of the fact that they lead towards programmed capability for the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 and are more significant,” Misbah was cited as saying in a public interview in Lahore.
Abdullah Shafiq gets lady call-up
Pakistan Cricket Board have called up right-gave batsman Abdullah Shafiq, who was in sparkling structure for Central Punjab in the as of late closed National T20 Cup. In 10 matches, he crushed 358 runs, remembering a century against Southern Punjab for September at the Multan Cricket Stadium.
Truth be told, the 20-year-old Shafiq made his T20 debut in the homegrown competition itself. Before that, Shafiq had just played a singular five star coordinate in December 2019 during the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy where he figured out how to pound 133 on debut with 16 fours and one six.
Rohail Nazir, who was Pakistan’s captain in the U19 World Cup prior this year in South Africa, additionally found a spot in the crew. All things considered, their group will show up in Islamabad on Tuesday, October 20, and will begin rehearsing following a one-week isolate period.
Babar Azam will be driving both the ODI and T20I groups. Pakistan got back to serious cricket in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic with the visit through England back in August. In 2018, they last played Zimbabwe in a respective arrangement.
Pakistan squad:
Babar Azam (commander), Abdullah Shafiq, Abid Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Haider Ali, Haris Sohail, Iftikhar Ahmed, Imam-ul-Haq, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Rizwan, Rohail Nazir, Imad Wasim, Shadab Khan, Usman Qadir, Zafar Gohar, Faheem Ashraf, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Hasnain, Musa Khan, Shaheen Shah, Wahab Riaz.
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