Lahore, 4 April 2023 (GNP): Babar Azam and Shadab Khan are named as the captain and vice-captain of Pakistan’s full-strength T20I and ODI squads for the home series against New Zealand.
Players will begin attending a training camp in Lahore on April 7; the first T20I of the series will be played there on April 14.
Shaheen Shah Afridi is also included in ODI and T20I squads against New Zealand and is ready to make his comeback to international cricket.
Together with Shaheen, Babar Azam, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, and Mohammad Rizwan are all returning to both squads. For the three-match T20I series against Afghanistan last month in Sharjah, all of these players had taken a break.
Following impressive performances in Sharjah, three young guns—Ihsanullah, Saim Ayub, and Zaman Khan—have been kept in the T20I squad. Ihsanullah has also been added to the ODI squad for the first time in his career.
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The team will get together in Lahore on April 6 and the training camp will start on April 7.
SQUADS:
T20I: Babar Azam (captain), Shadab Khan (vice-captain), Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Ihsanullah, Imad Wasim, Mohammad Haris, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Naseem Shah, Saim Ayub, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood and Zaman Khan
ODI: Babar Azam (captain), Shadab Khan (vice-captain), Abdullah Shafique, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Haris Sohail, Ihsanullah, Imam-ul-Haq, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Naseem Shah, Salman Ali Agha, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood and Usama Mir.
Reserves: Abbas Afridi, Abrar Ahmed and Tayyab Tahir
