Pakistan Cricket Board has introduced a 16-man squad for the upcoming three One Day Internationals in opposition to West Indies, ranging from eighth June 2022. This collection shall be counted in direction of ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup Tremendous League and Pakistan, who’re positioned ninth with solely six wins from 12 matches, will look to enhance their place within the desk.
PCB Selectors have diminished the overall variety of gamers within the squad to 16 from 21 because the collection is not going to be performed beneath the managed occasion surroundings just like the lately concluded Australia collection. Gamers like Asif Afridi, Asif Ali, Haider Ali and Usman Qadir have been disregarded whereas Saud Shakeel has been dominated out as a result of his damage. He’s scheduled to have surgical procedure for sinusitis.
No. 1 ODI batter Babar Azam will proceed because the group chief whereas Shadab Khan has returned after damage for his vice-captaincy providers. The entire squad will assemble in Rawalpindi on June 1 as a number of gamers like Mohammad Rizwan, Hasan Ali, Haris Rauf and Shadab Khan should return from their County providers.
“Because the ODIs in opposition to the West Indies are a part of the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2023 qualification, we’ve got determined to offer greatest likelihood to our aspect to gather most factors and strengthen our possibilities of progressing straight for the top 50-over match,” Chief Selector Muhammad Wasim mentioned.
“We’ve got retained the identical core of gamers in order that they additional set up themselves within the format. I hope this bunch will proceed the shape they gained from the Australia collection. Additionally, and bearing in mind that there shall be no Managed Occasion Surroundings and the gamers will be known as at a brief discover, we’ve got diminished the squad dimension to 16 gamers.
“For the Australia ODIs, we had additionally introduced backup gamers as cowl to these gamers who had been carrying accidents. Gamers corresponding to Mohammad Nawaz and Shadab Khan at the moment are absolutely match, which has allowed us to go away out Asif Afridi and Usman Qadir. Nevertheless, Usman together with Asif Ali and Haider Ali stay in our plans for the shortest format as we’ve got a collection of T20I lined up this yr, together with the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup 2022,” he added.
Pakistan squad for West Indies ODIs
Babar Azam (c), Shadab Khan (vc), Abdullah Shafique, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Imam-ul-Haq, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Haris (wk), Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan (wicketkeeper/batter), Mohammad Wasim Junior, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shahnawaz Dahani, Zahid Mahmood
