According to newspaper of muzaffarabad Afridi was remembered on Wed after being ignored for the one-day sequence against Indian in Dec. ”The Southern African-american trip is his last (chance) and he has to execute,” Pakistan primary selector Iqbal Qasim said.
Pakistan batsmen have been having difficulties on quick lively wickets in Southern African-american and are already following 2-0 in the three-match analyze sequence with the last analyze starting at Centurion from Saturday.
Qasim said it was not Afridi’s difficult reaching but his legspin go-karting which had kept the allrounder, 8th on the all-time record of ODI performances, in thoughts. ”It’s five ODIs and you need wide range in your go-karting,” Qasim said. ”Based on his excellent of right-arm legspin go-karting, we have chosen him.”
This 30 days, Afridi led Pakistan A in a one-day sequence against Afghanistan, and Qasim said the selectors were pleased with his health and health and fitness. He changes 33 on April 1. Afridi has performed 349 one-dayers for a typical of 23, plus 348 wickets.
The primary selector said he desired to provide ODI leader Misbah-ul-Haq enough go-karting option in the rotate division after viewing Southern Africa batsmen battle against slowly bowlers in the assessments.
”I am not saying go and perform him (Afridi) in the 11, my thoughts says we have to have some wide range (in bowling). ”They (South Africans) are enjoying excellent against quick bowlers and we have seen if you have wide range of rewriters, it provides you with advantage.”
Pakistan offspinner Saeed Ajmal got 10 wickets in the second analyze, but still could not avoid Pakistan going down by four wickets as the quick bowlers could not create an effect on the Proteas.
Durban and Centurion will variety the two Twenty20s on April 1 and 3 before the five-match ODI sequence starts at Bloemfontein on April 10.
Middle-order batsman Umar Akmal and quick bowler Wahab Riaz, who could not create it to the analyze group, were chosen for both Twenty20s and ODIs. Wicketkeeper Kamran Akmal was also neglected for the analyze sequence but profits to substitute Sarfraz Ahmed behind the stumps in the smaller types.
Twenty20 squad: Mohammad Hafeez (captain), Nasir Jamshed, Ahmad Shahzad, Umar Amin, Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal, Umar Akmal, Shahid Afridi, Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Irfan, Wahab Riaz, Umar Gul, Zulfiqar Babar, Asad Ali, Junaid Khan.
ODI squad: Misbah-ul-Haq (captain), Mohammad Hafeez, Imran Farhat, Nasir Jamshed, Asad Shafiq, Younis Khan, Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal, Umar Akmal, Shahid Afridi, Saeed Ajmal, Mohammad Irfan, Junaid Khan, Wahab Riaz, Umar Gul, Abdur Rehman.
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