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SA vs Pak Take a look at collection – Babar Azam and Naseem Shah again – Shaheen Afridi overlooked

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Shaheen Shah Afridi has been overlooked of Pakistan’s squad for the two-Take a look at collection in South Africa in December and January. Afridi, who was launched from Pakistan’s Take a look at facet after their defeat within the first Take a look at in opposition to England in October, stays a part of the white-ball squads for the tour. Babar Azam and Naseem Shah, who had been launched alongside Afridi after that first Take a look at, return to the Take a look at squad.

Afridi’s absence particularly from the Exams, although, seems to sign a degree in his profession the place the red-ball format has grow to be much less of a precedence than it has earlier than, a state that will even grow to be everlasting for him. When he was dropped in October, the idea was that the extra pace-friendly surfaces in South Africa, the place he performed his second and third Take a look at matches 5 years again, would swimsuit him higher as he tries to return to type within the format.

Since getting back from a knee damage he picked up throughout a Take a look at in Sri Lanka in July 2022, Afridi has performed only a handful of Exams, and been ineffective whereas doing so; in six video games, he has 17 wickets at a median of 45.47. His omission from these Exams makes it exceedingly unlikely he’ll win his place again for Pakistan’s house Take a look at collection in opposition to West Indies in January, following which Pakistan haven’t any Take a look at matches in any respect until October 2025.

There’s additionally a return for seamer Mohammad Abbas, who final performed Take a look at cricket for Pakistan in 2021. Abbas, whose metronomic accuracy and talent to seam the ball initially noticed him come into the Pakistan facet once they performed their house Exams within the UAE. He’s the one quick bowler within the squad who was additionally within the facet for Pakistan’s final Take a look at tour to South Africa in 2018-19.
Sajid Khan, in the meantime, has been overlooked of the travelling social gathering, Alongside Noman Ali, Sajid was instrumental in turning the collection in opposition to England round when Pakistan rejigged their pitches to swimsuit the spinners, taking 19 wickets throughout the 2 Exams. However surfaces in South Africa shall be vastly completely different to these, and Pakistan journey with simply the one spinner, and have opted for Noman’s left-arm orthodox spin as a substitute.

Meaning Abrar Ahmed, in the beginning of this season thought-about Pakistan’s premier Take a look at spinner, has additionally been omitted.

Khurram Shahzad returns to the Take a look at facet for the primary time since a recurring rib damage sidelined him following Pakistan’s house Exams in opposition to Bangladesh in August. Initially, he was considered out for only a few days, however it will flip right into a for much longer absence as he missed everything of the England Take a look at collection. Since returning on the finish of October, although, he has been in glowing type, taking 13 wickets in two Quaid-e-Azam trophy matches, and an extra 15 in three innings in opposition to the Sri Lanka A facet.

It leaves Pakistan’s squad considerably bereft of excessive tempo, a top quality extra priceless in South Africa than maybe anyplace else. Naseem is Pakistan’s solely true quick bowler for the collection, with Aamer Jamal, Shahzad, Abbas and Mir Hamza the others within the squad. That is prone to stand in stark distinction to South Africa’s Take a look at squad, which presently possesses a battery of quick bowlers who can push into the excessive 140s and even past.

There’s a lot much less flux in Pakistan’s white-ball squads, with Pakistan opting to stay largely to the staff that performed the ODI and T20I collection in Australia. Sufiyan Muqeem’s shiny begin in Zimbabwe has seen him rewarded, as he retains his place for each white-ball groups in opposition to South Africa, whereas Omair Yousuf is a part of the T20I squad.

Pakistan play three T20Is and three ODIs in South Africa between December 10 and 22, and two Take a look at matches in Centurion and Cape City starting on December 26 and January 7. South Africa is, statistically, Pakistan’s least blissful looking floor in Take a look at cricket, the place they’ve received simply two Take a look at matches, and by no means a Take a look at collection.

Pakistan squads for South Africa tour

Exams: Shan Masood (capt), Saud Shakeel (vice-capt), Aamir Jamal, Abdullah Shafique, Babar Azam, Haseebullah (wk), Kamran Ghulam, Khurram Shahzad, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Abbas, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Naseem Shah, Noman Ali, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha
ODIs: Mohammad Rizwan (capt, wk), Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Haris Rauf, Kamran Ghulam, Mohammad Hasnain, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Naseem Shah, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Sufiyan Muqeem, Tayyab Tahir, Usman Khan (wk)
T20Is: Mohammad Rizwan (capt, wk), Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Haris Rauf, Jahandad Khan, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Mohammad Hasnain, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Omair Bin Yousuf, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Sufyan Moqim, Tayyab Tahir, Usman Khan (wk)


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