Pakistan have selected 25 players to attend a December training camp ahead of the country’s first official test tour of Bangladesh early next year.
The training camp starts on December 1 before Pakistan travel to Bangladesh on January 5 for two tests and three one-day internationals.
It will be Pakistan’s first tour of Bangladesh since the Asian nation earned test status from the International Cricket Council (ICC) last year.
Pakistan and Bangladesh have played one test match to date, an Asian championship match in Multan in August when Pakistan won inside three days.
All of Pakistan’s top players have been named for the training camp, including the 14-man squad which won the Champions Trophy in Sharjah earlier this month.
The selectors have also invited three rookie fast bowlers – Abdur Rauf, Waqar Ahmed and Faisal Irfan – who have taken 126 wickets between them in Pakistan’s premier first-class competition, the Patrons Trophy.
**``After we complete the tour to Bangladesh, the West Indies are confirmed to come to Pakistan on January 25 to play three tests and an equal number of one-dayers,‘’ PCB director Brigadier Munawwar Rana told Reuters on Thursday. **
**Pakistan training camp players: Saeed Anwar, Taufiq Umar, Imran Farhat, Shadab Kabir, Shahid Afridi, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Yousaf Youhana, Naveed Latif, Younis Khan, Faisal Iqbal, Rashid Latif, Kamran Akmal, Abdur Razzaq, Azhar Mehmood, Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram, Shoaib Akhtar, Abdur Rauf, Muhammad Sami, Waqar Ahmed, Faisal Irfan, Danish Kaneria, Saqlain Mushtaq, Shoaib Malik and Mushtaq Ahmed. **