Pakistan off to New Zealand for T20 and Test matches

Pakistan Cricket Team has departed for New Zealand from Lahore to play two Test and three Twenty20 International (T20I) matches.

According to the details, the squad departed on November 23^rd (today) with smiles and an aim to win against Kiwis.

Pakistan and New Zealand are to play a three-match T20I series starting December 18. The two-Test series will begin on Boxing Day (December 26).

Earlier Pakistani Skipper Babar Azam said, “No opponent can be taken easy but if we do a head-to-head comparison with New Zealand, our team is also very good; We have no pressure but we do have confidence that we will do well”

He said that “I was struggling in Tests but I had good backing from the team management. I’d like to mention Mickey Arthur who really supported me and who said that the more support I got & the more I played, the better I will become”

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Babar Azam said  “PCB has given me a lot of confidence, to not worry about short term results & that I’m in their long term plans. They’ve told me to play freely & there’s no pressure from them about results. They’ve given me the freedom to captain & play as well as I can.”

Squad:

Babar Azam (c), Abid Ali, Abdullah Shafique, Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Shan Masood, Zeeshan Malik, Azhar Ali, Danish Aziz, Fawad Alam, Haider Ali, Haris Sohail, Hussain Talat, Imran Butt, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Rizwan, Rohail Nazir, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Imad Wasim, Shadab Khan, Usman Qadir, Yasir Shah, Zafar Gohar, Amad Butt, Faheem Ashraf, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Abbas, Mohammad Hasnain, Musa Khan, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi, Sohail Khan, Wahab Riaz.