Lahore, Pakistan and Zimbabwe cricket teams are going to play T20 series from 22 May in Gaddafi Stadium Lahore. Zimbabwe cricket team has arrived in Lahore and the T20 cricket series is going to be started between these two countries. PCB has announced the T20 squad for Pakistan, which is included with various old and new players. In the T20 squad, Shahid Khan Afridi is the captain of Pakistan side while Sarfaraz Ahmed is the vice captain.
In Pakistan T20 squad, various new players are included in which the main name is Noman Anwar of Sialkot Stallions, who showed wonderful performance in the domestic season recently. Shoaib Malik and Umar Akmal are brought back in the national team. Muhammad Sami is also given the chance to play in the national team after about 5 years. The other players of the national team are Bilawal Bhatti, Muhammad Rizwan, Hammad Azam, Anwar Ali, Wahab Riaz, Mukhtar Ahmed and Ahmed Shahzad. Sohail Tanveer, Umar Gul and Saeed Ajmal are not selected in the national team.
First T20 match will be played on 22 may while the second T20 match will be played on 24 May in the Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore. Huge number of tickets have been sold uptil now and it is hoped that large crowd will come to watch the matches.
Pakistan T20 Squad: Shahid Afridi (capt), Sarfraz Ahmed (vc), Mukhtar Ahmed, Nauman Anwar, Shoaib Malik, Umar Akmal, Mohammad Rizwan, Anwar Ali, Hammad Azam, Imad Wasim, Bilawal Bhatti, Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Sami, Ahmed Shehzad, Mohammad Hafeez