Zimbabwe cricket team arrives in Pakistan after 5 years

 

Zimbabwe cricket team arrives in Pakistan after 5 years

The Zimbabwe cricket crew showed up in Islamabad on Tuesday to play two restricted overs arrangement against Pakistan. 

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) authorities invited the meeting group at the air terminal. Players of the Zimbabwe group — who are visiting the nation following five years — will go through their first week (Oct 21 to 27) in isolate in Islamabad. 

The group left on Monday morning from their nation of origin with a voyaging crew of 20 players. 

Pakistan face Zimbabwe in three One-day Internationals — all matches being arranged in Rawalpindi from Oct 30 — trailed by the same number of T20 Internationals in Lahore from Nov 7 to 10. 

Arrangement plan 

Oct 30 – first ODI, Rawalpindi 

Nov 1 – second ODI, Rawalpindi 

Nov 3 – third ODI, Rawalpindi 

Nov 7 – first T20I, Lahore 

Nov 8 – second T20I, Lahore 

Nov 10 – third T20I, Lahore 

The Rawalpindi matches will be essential for International Cricket Council (ICC) Men's Cricket World Cup Super League from which the seven highest level sides, aside from has India, will qualify straightforwardly for the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023, as per an official statement gave by the PCB a day sooner. 

Pakistan crew 

The triplet of senior players including previous skippers Sarfaraz Ahmed and Shoaib Malik in addition to quick bowler Mohammad Amir were forgotten about while uncapped players Abdullah Shafiq and Usman Qadir alongside adolescents Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Musa Khan and Zafar Gohar were named by boss selector and lead trainer Misbahul Haq in a 22-part crew reported on Monday. 

Leg-spinner Shadab Khan has been designated as bad habit chief in both ODI and T20 designs. 

Other than two uncapped and three unpracticed players, the remainder of the 17 crew individuals are experienced as Haq chose not to take the meeting Zimbabweans simple. 

Crew: Babar Azam, Haider Ali, Abdullah Shafiq, Imamul Haq, Haris Sohail, Abid Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Hafeez, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Rizwan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Faheem Ashraf, Imad Wasim, Rohail Nazir, Shadab Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Mohammad Hasnain, Haris Rauf, Musa Khan, Wahab Riaz, Usman Qadir, Zafar Gohar.