LAHORE
\nThe Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Wednesday the men\u2019s national side\u2019s 17-member squad for the upcoming Tests against Bangladesh.
\nThe first Test will be played at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium from August 21 to 25 while the second Test will be held from August 30 to September 3 in Karachi.
\nThe training camp will commence at the Pindi stadium on August 11 and will be supervised by red-ball head coach Jason Gillespie and assistant coach Azhar Mahmood. The Bangladesh cricket team is scheduled to arrive in Islamabad in the wee hours of August 17 and expected to train in the same afternoon.
\nThe Test squad will be led by Shan Masood while left-handed middle-order batter Saud Shakeel has been appointed as vice-captain.
\nHe took over Shaheen Shah Afridi as part of the selectors\u2019 strategic decision that is aimed at managing Pakistan\u2019s lead fast bowler\u2019s workload management during the period from August 21, 2024, to April 5, 2025, in which Pakistan are scheduled to play nine Tests, 14 T20Is and, at least, 17 ODIs.
\nOf the 17 players picked for the first Test series of the 2024-25 season, 13 players were involved in Pakistan\u2019s last series against Australia in December\/January 2023-24.
\nMohammad Huraira, Kamran Ghulam and Mohammad Ali have been rewarded for their consistent performances in the domestic circuit as well as for Pakistan Shaheens, while Naseem Shah is returning to the red-ball side after 13 months.
\nPakistan squad
\nShan Masood (captain), Saud Shakeel (vice-captain), Aamir Jamal (subject to Fitness), Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Kamran Ghulam, Khurram Shahzad, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Huraira, Mohammad Rizwan (wicket-keeper), Naseem Shah, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfaraz Ahmed (wicket-keeper) and Shaheen Shah Afridi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LAHORE The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced on Wednesday the men\u2019s national side\u2019s 17-member squad for the upcoming Tests against Bangladesh. The first Test will be played at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium from August 21 to 25 while the second Test will be held from August 30 to September 3 in Karachi. The training camp …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68565,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68552\/revisions\/68565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}