Pakistan - England series in UAE / Pakistan squad announced

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What do you think about it? England has already announced its squad. Who should Pakistan take into consideration?

What are the odds in your view?

Schedule:

**Sep 30: **England team arrive

**Oct 05-06: **Two-day game v Pakistan A , Sharjah CC

**Oct 08-09: **Two-day game vs Pakistan A, Sharjah CC

**Oct 13-17: **1ST TEST, ZCS, Abu Dhabi

**Oct 22-26: **2ND TEST, Dubai Cricket Stadium

**Nov 01-05: **3RD TEST, Sharjah CC

**Nov 08: **One-day practice match, ZCS, Abu Dhab

i**Nov 11: 1ST ODI D/N, ZCS, Abu Dhabi

Nov 13: 2ND ODI D/N, ZCS, Abu Dhabi

Nov 17: 3RD ODI, D/N, Sharjah CC

Nov 20: 4TH ODI, D/N, Dubai Cricket Stadium

Nov 23: T20 v UAE XI (f), ZCS, Abu Dhabi

Nov 26: 1ST IT20 (f), Dubai Cricket Stadium

Nov 27:** 2ND IT20, (f), Dubai Cricket Stadium**

Nov 30:** 3RD IT20, (f), Sharjah CC

Dec 01: England depart UAE

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English squad: "Zafar Ansari" is the spotlight inclusion

Test squad:
**Alastair Cook (Essex, capt), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), James Anderson (Lancashire), Zafar Ansari (Surrey), JonnyBairstow (Yorkshire), Ian Bell (Warwickshire), Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire), Jos Buttler (Lancashire, wkt), Steven Finn (Middlesex), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), Liam Plunkett (Yorkshire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Ben Stokes (Durham), James Taylor (Nottinghamshire), Mark Wood (Durham)

One-Day International squad:**
Eoin Morgan (Middlesex, capt), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire), Sam Billings (Kent), Jos Buttler (Lancashire, wkt), Steven Finn (Middlesex), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Jason Roy (Surrey), James Taylor (Nottinghamshire), Reece Topley (Essex), David Willey (Northamptonshire), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire), Mark Wood (Durham)**

Twenty20 International squad**
Eoin Morgan (Middlesex, capt), Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), Sam Billings (Kent), Jos Buttler (Lancashire), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), Chris Jordan (Sussex), Stephen Parry (Lancashire), Adil Rashid (Yorkshire), Joe Root (Yorkshire), Jason Roy (Surrey), Reece Topley (Essex), James Vince (Hampshire), David Willey (Northamptonshire), Chris Woakes (Warwickshire), Mark Wood (Durham)

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I'd love Ajmal to play both Pakistan-A games and see if he can be at least half the bowler he was after remodeling.

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Three English players are of Pakistani origin in the squad.

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Hope we can repeat the test success of last time we met them there.

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One already down :frowning:

He doesnt look Pakistani origin at all..

Zafar Ansari dislocates thumb after England call | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo

Ansari dislocates thumb after England call

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Poor guy was so bad in the domestic T20 that he has finally decided to retire from international cricket and rightly so. You simply cannot bowl with remodelled action after 15-20 years career. I hope he still gets picked for one of the PSL teams though, totally deserves it.

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Better for Ajmal to get retire. He reached a very high level. now he got phenty by avg. batsmen . definitely burns his heart as well as ours too.

As for PK Vs England , I hope our team will perform very well against them in Tests. For ODI will be a 50 50

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Fawad Alam back in Pakistan Test squad

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File photo: Fawad Alam has earned himself a Test recall as a result of good recent form in first-class cricket © AFP

Fawad Alam could end a five-year hiatus from Test cricket after being named in in the 15-man Pakistan squad to face England in the UAE from October. His last five-day game was against New Zealand in November 2009 but has been a heavy scorer in first-class cricket. Over the last 12 months, he has two centuries - 204 and 164 - and five fifties in 14 innings. The man making way is 20-year old Babar Azam.
Alam had made a memorable Test debut, scoring 168 in the second innings of the Colombo Test in 2009. However, he got to play only two Tests since then and the bid to restart his five-day career will be tough. The middle-order is well stocked with captain Misbah-ul Haq, Azhar Ali, Younis Khan being first-choice picks. Asad Shafiq, the incumbent No. 6, has also scored three centuries since November 2014.
Ahmed Shehzad and Shan Masood have been retained as openers. Mohammad Hafeez has been picked to play as a specialist batsman as well.
Pakistan have received a boost in the fast bowling department as well. Wahab Riaz has recovered from the hand injury he sustained in Sri Lanka and replaces Ehsan Adil. Left-arm quick Junaid Khan has kept his place in the Test squad as well. He has been down on threat and as a result did not play Pakistan’s last Test in Pallekele, but has kept himself busy playing for English county Middlesex over the summer. Imran Khan and Rahat Ali round off a quartet of seam-bowling resources.
Pakistan have decided Yasir Shah, the top-ranked spinner in the world, and Zulfiqar Babar are enough as far as slow bowling resources are concerned.
The PCB have also announced the limited-overs squads for the Zimbabwe series from September 27. Batsman Sohaib Maqsood finds a place in both the ODI and T20 squads after recovering from injury. Uncapped fast bowler Imran Khan jnr and allrounder Aamer Yamin receive their maiden Pakistan call-ups and are part of the 15 men chosen to play the T20s. Bilal Asif is another uncapped allrounder chosen for the shortest format, but he has already toured with the Pakistan ODI side when he was picked to play against Sri Lanka.
Among the more familiar names, batsman Umar Akmal and left-arm quick Sohail has been selected for only the T20s against Zimbabwe.

Test squad
Ahmed Shehzad, Shan Masood, Azhar Ali, Mohammad Hafeez, Fawad Alam, Asad Shafiq, Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), Younis Khan, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Yasir Shah, Zulfiqar Babar, Wahab Riaz, Imran Khan, Rahat Ali and Junaid Khan

ODI squad Azhar Ali (capt), Ahmed Shahzad, Mohammad Hafeez, Sohaib Maqsood, Shoaib Malik, Babar Azam, Asad Shafiq Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), Mohammad Rizwan, Imad Wasim, Anwar Ali, Wahab Raiz, Yasir Shah, Rahat Ali, Mohammad Irfan****

T20 squad Ahmed Shahzad, Mukhtar Ahmed, Umar Akmal, Mohammad Hafeez, Shahid Afridi (capt), Sohaib Maqsood, Shoaib Malik, Aamer Yamin, Mohammad Irfan, Bilal Asif, Wahab Riaz, Imad Wasim, Sohail Tanvir, Mohammad Rizwan, Imran Khan jnr******
******© ESPN Sports Media Ltd.

Fawad Alam back in Pakistan Test squad | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo******

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Good to see fawad Alam in the test squad. Look like Haris is still injured however Sohaib makes a comeback in the ODI and T/20 squad. Sarfraz is not part of the T/20 squad. Wonder why?

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very long awaited decision. fawad suites test matches. Hopefully he will get to bowl some overs too .
He shud not be part of T 20 at all. Hafeez also shud leave T 20 for some youngster specially as he can not bowl any more..

Another good decision of not selecting yasir sahh for T 20.. He shud focus more on Test and ODI. Any bad series with T 20 will cost him place in Test matches where he is lovely to watch.

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Both Sarfraz and Anwar should have been picked for T20 squads as well

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Waaat? They dropped Anwar who almost single-highhandedly won the match against SL which they had almost lost? And almost had the fastest 50??
Welcome to Don Afridi's preference club.
I think they are right when they say you try to be a better hero than the captain, you aint getting nothing.

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Bad selections :nook:

Waqar Younis still having nightmares of Sarfaraz.

What about Aamir? I was hoping to see him back in squad at least.

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I can understand Sarfraz’s decision and NOTHING to do with Waqar. Mohammed Rizwan has been equally impressive if not more in Domestic T20s and it is a wise to keep him in action while Sarfraz plays much more important Tests and ODIs. Rizwan is a very good finisher and one of the reasons Peshawar successfully chased in 10 straight games.

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Anwar's is the most glaring omission. I mean how can you not select him esp. after his heroics in the 2nd T20 against Lanka. It is mind boggling to say the least. What were the selectors (read Afridi) thinking?

But it serves (some) people right. This is what you get when your sole reason for supporting a player (Afridi) is that he plays for your city! I have seen this attitude among posters on other forums incl. Dawn readers. *Now deal with Afridi *(or his politics). **If he really wanted Anwar and Sarfraz in the T20 squad, there is no way coach or selectors could have resisted his demands. **The guy has a tendency towards favouritism.

Don't just blame the coach Waqar (not saying he is a saint. he clearly got a few things wrong during the world cup). Blame the real culprit, the captain (Afridi) who has a greater say than coach in selection matters

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Not surprised to see Mukhtar in the T20 squad. He will soon be found out against better opposition. A brainless slogger favouring another slogger

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However can't disagree too much with the test and ODI squads apart from Hafeez (Amir could have been included). The selectors and the respective captains got it about right. Good to see Fawad and Sohaib back. Mediocre Hafeez is very lucky to have been selected in all three teams esp. since he has now been barred from bowling by ICC

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As I said earlier too its the same dirty mentality of NOT letting anyone be a hero and get more airtime/prize etc than those who became hero like 20 yrs back. Very similar to nasty Pakistani politics.

So at this moment they can suppress anybody who is coming from a non-influential family and a possible threat to outshine them, will be discarded just like its done with Anwar and Sarfraz both.

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when you have failures like Afridi, Hafeez, Shahzad, Sohaib, Sohail Tanvir getting a place despite being useless, what can you say.

these same "experienced seniors" in the team will cost us the next WC, i'm sure.
This, and the huge gaps after each little series, lack of test cricket, will be again our catalyst for early exit in WCs.