Pakistan’s Squad Announced for England Tour

According to the report of Baaghi TV, Pakistan’s 29-member squad has been announced for the tour of England.

Haider Ali, a batsman of the national under-19 cricket team and a rising young cricketer, has been included in the national squad. The three-Test, three-match T20 series between Pakistan and England will be played in England in August-September.

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A wide squad of prominent cricketers, both long and limited, has been selected for the tour of England. The reason for this is that according to the SOPs prepared to deal with the corona virus, all the players leave for England at the same time and then return.

Haider Ali had secured a place in the emerging category of Central Contract for the season 2020-21 due to his excellent performance in the season 2019-20. Haider Ali scored 317 runs in the series against South Africa’s under-19 cricket team in June, becoming the second highest run-scorer for Pakistan. He was the fifth best batsman in the Emerging Teams Asia Cup played in Bangladesh. He scored 218 runs in the event.

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The young batsman scored a century in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final and scored a total of 645 runs in the event. He was Pakistan’s third best batsman in the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2020.

Representing Peshawar Zalmi in the HBL Pakistan Super League, he scored 239 runs in 9 matches with a strike rate of over 158.

Apart from Haider Ali, spinner Kashif Bhatti is also awaiting his debut in the 29-member squad. He was part of the squad announced against Australia and Sri Lanka but did not make the final XI. He was not included in the potential squad for the Rawalpindi Test against Bangladesh. Meanwhile, fast bowler Sohail Khan has returned to the national squad. He played his ninth and final Test match in 2016 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in Australia.

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Sohail Khan took 22 wickets in 9 Quaid-e-Azam Trophy matches last season. He took 7 wickets while representing Quetta Gladiators in HBLPSL 2020. Haider Ali, Kashif Bhatti and Sohail Khan, as well as Harris Sohail, all players on central contracts have been included in the squad. Apart from them, Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Hafeez, Wahab Riaz, Khushdal Shah, Fahim Ashraf, Imran Khan and Fawad Alam have also been made part of the squad.

The selectors have included Bilal Asif, Mohammad Nawaz, Musa Khan and Imran Butt in the reserve players for the tour. These four reserve players have been kept as a backup in case of any player’s positive test report before leaving for England.

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The Corona Tests for the tour of England will take place on June 20 and 25. Fast bowlers Hassan Ali, Mohammad Aamir and middle-order batsman Haris Sohail were not available for the England tour. Hassan Ali was not available due to a back injury and Mohammad Amir was due to give birth to a second child, while Haris Sohail did not reveal his availability for a tour of England due to the Corona virus outbreak.

Names of 29 players:

Openers (4): Abid Ali (Sindh), Fakhr Zaman (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Shaun Masood (Southern Punjab) and Imam-ul-Haq (Balochistan).

Middle Order Batsmen (9): Azhar Ali, Captain National Test Team (Central Punjab), Babar Azam, Vice Captain National Test Team and Captain National T20 Cricket Team (Central Punjab), Asad Shafiq (Sindh), Fawad Alam (Sindh) , Haider Ali (Northern), Iftikhar Ahmed (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Khushdal Shah (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Muhammad Hafeez (Southern Punjab) and Shoaib Malik (Southern Punjab)

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Wicket-keepers (2): Muhammad Rizwan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and Sarfraz Ahmed (Sindh)

Fast bowlers (10): Faheem Ashraf (Central Punjab), Haris Rauf (Northern), Imran Khan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), Muhammad Abbas (Southern Punjab), Muhammad Hasnain (Sindh), Naseem Shah (Central Punjab), Shaheen Shah Afridi (Northern), Sohail Khan (Sindh), Usman Shinwari (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and Wahab Riaz (Southern Punjab)

Spinners (4): Yasir Shah (Balochistan), Emad Wasim (Northern), Kashif Bhatti (Sindh) and Shadab Khan (Northern)

Misbah-ul-Haq, chief selector and head coach of the national cricket team, said that the selectors have selected a squad that is expected to perform well in both long and limited styles of cricket in England. He said that the players’ distance from the field has been a challenge for a long time but he is hopeful that the full training in England in a month will bring positive results.

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Misbah-ul-Haq has clarified that long-term cricket has been the priority of the selectors during the selection of the squad as Pakistan has to play Test cricket in the next two months. Will be after the matches. The chief selector of the national cricket team said that our players have not participated in any competitive cricket since March while the host team will play a series against West Indies before Pakistan so this series against England will not be easy.

“We have to take part in as many training sessions as possible before the first test to prepare,” he said. Misbah-ul-Haq said that the players have been selected keeping in view the future. He wants to benefit from the vast experience of young cricketers, Younis Khan and Mushtaq Ahmed. He said that the return of Sohail Khan would further strengthen the fast bowling department of the national cricket team. He last took five or more wickets twice in 2016 against England. He said that according to the selectors, Sohail Khan bowled far better than his figures in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2019-20.

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Team Officials:

Misbah-ul-Haq – Head Coach
Shahid Aslam – Assistant to Head Coach
Waqar Younis – Bowling Coach
Abdul Majeed – Fielding Coach
Yasir Malik – Strength and Conditioning Coach
Talha Butt – Analyst
Cliff Deacon – Physiotherapist

Malang Ali – Massager
Mansoor Rana – Team Manager
Retired Col. Usman Rafat Anwari – Team Security Manager
Raza Rashid – Team Media Manager

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