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Pakistan included Shaheen Afridi in their 15-man squad for the T20 World Cup in Australia, hoping the pace spearhead will recover in time from a knee injury for the tournament that starts next month.
Pakistan on Thursday announced its squad for the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup. The Babar Azam-led side looks quite similar to the one that competed in the Asia Cup recently. There was no joy for veteran batter Shoaib Malik, whom a lot of ex-cricketers were backing for a recall after Pakistan's loss to Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup.
Ever since Pakistan's defeat to Sri Lanka in the Asia Cup final, a lot has been said about the Asian giants' weak middle order. Pakistan lost two matches in a row to the islanders and surrendered the Asia Cup title. The lack of technically sound batters in the middle order is seen as a major reason for that and several former players have asked the selectors to look into this before announcing the team for the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup in Australia.
All the top cricket teams in the world are currently gearing up of the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia. The Super 12 stage of the mega-event will start on October 22, while the Pakistan cricket team and the Indian cricket team will face each other on October 23. Both the teams are playing a series of bilaterals as well as the Asia Cup in the lead up to the show-piece event. All eyes will be on how the Babar Azam-led Pakistan fare at the T20 World Cup. In the 2021 edition, Pakistan impressed all with their performance and qualified for the semi-finals.
Pakistan captain Babar Azam recently took to Twitter to share a picture with his teammates. "With the boys!" he captioned it. In the picture, Babar is accompanied by Shan Masood, Sarfaraz Khan, Fawad Alam and Azhar Ali and all five, dressed in fine casuals, are seen looking at the same direction. Pakistan all-rounder Shadab Khan replied to the Tweet with a hilarious comment. "Muje esay kyu dekh rahe hei sab? (Why is everyone looking at me like this?)" he wrote.
Mickey Arthur says Derbyshire are daring to dream as they approach Saturday's Vitality Blast quarter-final away to Somerset. The county have to go into the game without their talismanic T20 captain Shan Masood, who is now away with Pakistan, but head of cricket Arthur believes his squad have the collective belief to cope.
Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi have been slotted in Category A of both the newly-announced white-ball as well as red-ball contracts by the Pakistan Cricket Board, PCB announced on Thursday. The contract will come into effect from Friday, July 1. The PCB has introduced separate red and white-ball contracts, while four more players have been added to the Emerging Category. This means a total of 33 players, 13 more than the previous season, have received contracts for the next 12 months.
Previously, top players were offered one contract and could be called on to play any version of the game, but specialisation has made this out of fashion for many cricketing nations. "These contracts are part of our vision and strategy to identify, groom and develop specialists for the traditional and purist format of the game," chief selector Mohammad Wasim told press conference.