Pakistan’s Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam in motion as New Zealand’s Will O’Rourke reacts throughout the ICC Champions Trophy group match at Nationwide Financial institution Stadium, Karachi. — Reuters/File
These adjustments would additionally embody the appointment of a brand new captain for Pakistan’s T20I group.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has accomplished the session course of relating to the nationwide males’s group’s white-ball squads for the New Zealand tour, scheduled to run from March 16 to April 5.
The sources additional revealed that former pacer Aqib Javed is more likely to stay the interim head coach because the cricket board couldn’t begin the recruitment course of as a result of lack of time.
Nevertheless, former Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf is more likely to exchange Shahid Aslam because the batting coach, whereas Azhar Mahmood and Muhammad Masroor are set to be retained because the bowling and fielding coaches respectively.
Pakistan’s white-ball captain Rizwan will lead the ODI squad, which is more likely to bear slight adjustments, the sources added.
Pakistan’s T20I squad, nonetheless, is anticipated to bear an enormous overhaul because the PCB plans to present kids and home performers an opportunity by resting the senior gamers together with white-ball captain Rizwan, star batter Babar, vice-captain Salman Ali Agha and pacer Naseem Shah.
In consequence, all-rounder Shadab Khan, whose final look got here in June final yr throughout the ICC Males’s T20 World Cup towards Eire, is more likely to lead Pakistan within the five-match T20I collection towards New Zealand.
The event comes towards the backdrop of Males in Inexperienced’s — who have been additionally the defending champions of the Champions Trophy — below-par efficiency within the first ICC occasion hosted by the nation in practically three a long time.
In the course of the event, the Rizwan-led facet didn’t win a single match and misplaced two fixtures towards New Zealand and arch-rivals India. In the meantime, their match towards Bangladesh was washed out attributable to rain.
It was additionally learnt earlier that Saqlain Mushtaq is anticipated to take over because the nationwide cricket group’s head coach with sources saying that the previous cricketer has agreed to the function after a gathering with PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi.
Pakistan’s seemingly squad for T20I collection
Shadab Khan (c), Mohammad Haris, Sufiyan Muqeem, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Abbas Afridi, Jahandad Khan, Abrar Ahmed, Omair Bin Yousuf, Khushdil Shah, Hassan Nawaz, Abdul Samad, Haris Rauf, Usman Khan, Hussain Talat and Mohammad Ali.
