Pakistan Set To Play Two-Day Practice Game Against Victoria XI

18.12.2023 - 07:23 sports.ndtv.com

The Pakistan team is set to play a two-day practice game against Victoria XI before the Boxing Day Test against Australia on December 22 and 23.

Australia's all-rounded performance sunk Pakistan as the Asian Giants ended up suffering a massive 360-run defeat. Originally, this game was not a part of the tour, but Pakistan made a request to arrange the game due to concerns about lack of practice according to ESPNcricinfo.

This game won't be like a four-day Test affair against the Prime Minister's XI, the Pakistan team will get the opportunity to try more than 11 players as it is not a first-class game. "That [the Victoria tour game] was something extra we added into the schedule because it wasn't there earlier.

We wanted to have more practice rather than only one practice game. That had first-class status, so we couldn't give all the bowlers the chance to have a feel," Pakistan head coach Mohammad Hafeez said as quoted from ESPNcricinfo. "That's the reason we wanted to have this practice game, so more guys could get a feel of a match scenario; we felt that would work well.

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