Pakistan Shaheens’ gamers rejoice successful the ACC Males’s Rising Groups Asia Cup after beating India on the R. Premadasa Worldwide Cricket Stadium in Colombo on July 23, 2023. — Sri Lanka Cricket
LAHORE: Pakistan Shaheens will tour England this yr after July, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) introduced on Saturday.
Though the cricket board didn’t particularly announce the small print of Shaheens’ tour to England, it shared that the facet will bear a coaching camp in Karachi from July 10, in an announcement concerning the upcoming Abilities Improvement camp, scheduled to begin on the Nationwide Cricket Academy (NCA) from June 16.
Consequently, it remained unsure what number of matches and below which format the Shaheens play throughout their tour to England.
“Meanwhile, camp for Pakistan Shaheens ahead of their tour to England will commence in Karachi from 10 July,” the PCB shared in its assertion.
The cricket board additional introduced that the names of the shortlisted gamers for Pakistan Shaheens might be shared in the end.
The upcoming tour will mark Shaheens’ first main tour since they visited Darwin, Australia, in August final yr.
Throughout their Darwin tour, the Shaheens participated within the High Finish T20 collection, that includes Huge Bash League (BBL) groups Melbourne Renegades and Adelaide Strikers and Bangladesh Excessive-Efficiency XI.
Shaheens’ most up-to-date appearances got here in February when the PCB named three totally different groups to take part within the ICC Males’s Champions Trophy 2025 warm-up matches.
The primary set of the Shaheens squad took on Afghanistan on the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on February 14 and registered a thumping 144-run victory.
The remaining two matches in opposition to South Africa and Bangladesh have been performed concurrently on February 17 in Karachi and Dubai, respectively.
Shaheens achieved combined leads to the remaining two fixtures as Mohammad Haris-led facet crushed Bangladesh by seven wickets and 91 balls remaining, whereas Mohammad Huraira-led group suffered a three-wicket defeat in opposition to South Africa, who went on to play the semi-final of the eight-team match.
