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Pakistan hosts the West Indies in the three-match limited-overs international series starting Wednesday. The temperature is expected to top 45 degrees Celsius (113 F) this week in Multan, and organizers have pushed back the starting time for games to 4 p.m. local time to offer some respite.
Promising South African batting stars Tristan Stubbs and Dewald Brevis have been added to The Hundred wildcard list for the tournament's second edition later this year.
Joe Root, former England cricket team captain, became just the 14th batter to score 10,000 Test runs when he reached the landmark during his match-winning innings of 115* against New Zealand at Lord's on Sunday. The 31-year-old Root is the only one among that select group of run-scorers to still be playing Test cricket. Indian cricket team legend Sunil Gavaskar was the first to enter the elite club. On March 7, 1987, Gavaskar scored his 10,000th Test run in a match against Pakistan in Ahmedabad.
Pakistan cricket team is gearing up to face West Indies in a three-ODI series in Multan starting with the first match on Wednesday. Heat is going to play a major factor in the series as the temperature in the Pakistan city is expected to hover around 45 degree Celsius. The players are also aware of this. "It's a challenging scenario but now it has been decided and we are preparing for it. Definitely it is hot, but we are having a conditioning camp and acclimatising to the weather. We started our training camp earlier in the day from 2:30pm so that we could feel the heat and get ourselves ready for the matches," Babar Azam, Pakistan captain, said in a press conference recently.
Pakistan's ODI series against West Indies begins from Tuesday and ahead of the start of the three-match series, the players got together for a customary photo shoot. During the shot all top Pakistan stars posed in front of the camera including captain Babar Azam, pace sensation Shaheen Shah Afridi and star wicket-keeper batter Mohammad Rizwan. The Pakistan Cricket Board posted a video of the same on its Instagram profile,
Cricket during summer months in the subcontinent is almost unthinkable, with temperatures in the northern parts regularly breaching the 45ºC mark and heatwaves a common occurrence.
Australia's big guns returned to the side as they announced the playing XI for the opening Twenty20 International (T20I) against Sri Lanka at the R.Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Tuesday. Mitchell Marsh, David Warner, Glenn Maxwell and Steve Smith had all missed the recent T20I matches at home to Sri Lanka in February and the one-off T20I against Pakistan in Lahore in April but return to the playing XI for the first T20I. Speaking about the team composition, Australia's limited-overs skipper Aaron Finch said that there was a temptation to play two spinners but with rain around in the last couple of days, they decided to go in with three fast bowlers.