Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officers welcomed the visiting staff on the airport. Gamers of the Zimbabwe staff — who’re visiting the nation after 5 years — will spend their first week (Oct 21 to 27) in quarantine in Islamabad.
Arrival of @ZimCricketv staff at Islamabad.Heat welcome to the guests to the federal capital. pic.twitter.com/lKh40kYR3S
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) October 20, 2020
The staff left on Monday morning from their house nation with a travelling squad of 20 gamers.
Pakistan face Zimbabwe in three One-day Internationals — all matches being staged in Rawalpindi from Oct 30 — adopted by as many T20 Internationals in Lahore from Nov 7 to 10.
Collection scheduleOct 30 – 1st ODI, RawalpindiNov 1 – 2nd ODI, RawalpindiNov 3 – third ODI, RawalpindiNov 7 – 1st T20I, LahoreNov 8 – 2nd T20I, LahoreNov 10 – third T20I, LahoreThe Rawalpindi matches can be a part of Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) Males’s Cricket World Cup Tremendous League from which the seven top-ranked sides, aside from hosts India, will qualify instantly for the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2023, in keeping with a press launch issued by the PCB a day earlier.
Pakistan squadThe trio of senior gamers together with former captains Sarfaraz Ahmed and Shoaib Malik plus quick bowler Mohammad Amir had been neglected whereas uncapped gamers Abdullah Shafiq and Usman Qadir together with kids Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Musa Khan and Zafar Gohar had been named by chief selector and head coach Misbahul Haq in a 22-member squad introduced on Monday.
Leg-spinner Shadab Khan has been appointed as vice-captain in each ODI and T20 codecs.
In addition to two uncapped and three inexperienced gamers, the remainder of the 17 squad members are skilled as Haq determined to not take the visiting Zimbabweans simple.
Squad: Babar Azam, Haider Ali, Abdullah Shafiq, Imamul Haq, Haris Sohail, Abid Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Hafeez, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Rizwan, Iftikhar Ahmed, Faheem Ashraf, Imad Wasim, Rohail Nazir, Shadab Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Mohammad Hasnain, Haris Rauf, Musa Khan, Wahab Riaz, Usman Qadir, Zafar Gohar.
