Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi and Naseem Shah have been named in Pakistan’s one-day worldwide and Twenty20 squads for subsequent month’s tour of Australia, with the nation’s cricket board anticipated to call a brand new captain.
Babar stepped down as skipper in all three codecs final 12 months after Pakistan didn’t make the knockout stage of the 50-over World Cup, earlier than returning as white-ball captain in March for the T20 World Cup the place his crew did not make the Tremendous Eight.
The batting mainstay, in addition to tempo bowler Afridi, have been overlooked of Pakistan’s final two Assessments towards England, and the crew wrapped up a 2-1 collection win on Saturday.
The trio won’t function within the matches towards Zimbabwe which observe the Australian collection, nevertheless, as they are going to be rested.
Wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan will likely be obtainable for the Australia video games and the Zimbabwe ODIs, however will likely be rested for the T20s.
Pakistan play three ODIs and three T20Is towards each Australia and Zimbabwe. The Australia tour runs from November 4-18.
Pakistan squads:
ODIs: Aamir Jamal, Abdullah Shafique, Arafat Minhas, Babar Azam, Faisal Akram, Haris Rauf, Haseebullah, Kamran Ghulam, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Rizwan, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Naseem Shah, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Shaheen Afridi.
T20Is: Arafat Minhas, Babar Azam, Haris Rauf, Haseebullah, Jahandad Khan, Mohammad Abbas Afridi, Mohammad Rizwan, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Naseem Shah, Omair Bin Yousuf, Sahibzada Farhan, Salman Ali Agha, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Sufyan Moqim, Usman Khan.