19 probables named for cricket camp

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Cricket Board’s selectors have announced 19 probables for the camp training for the first Test of the ICC World Test Championship against Bangladesh to be played in Rawalpindi from February 7-11.

The camp starts from today (Monday) at the National Cricket Academy in Lahore. Bilal Asif, Faheem Ashraf and Musa Khan have been added to the 16 players who were named for the two ICC World Test Championship fixtures against Sri Lanka.

Bilal has been invited after he finished as the second most successful bowler with 42 wickets in the just-concluded four-day first-class Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, while Central Punjab’s Faheem has been named as an all-rounder after he regained complete fitness and took 5-54 and 1-59 in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy final against Northern.

Musa was not a part of the Test squad against Sri Lanka, but he had remained with the side and trained under bowling coach Waqar Younis.

The final squad for the Rawalpindi Test will be announced after the T20I series.

Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi are part of the Pakistan side for the three T20Is against Bangladesh and will join the camp following the conclusion of series on January 28.

Camp probables: Azhar Ali (captain), Abid Ali, Asad Shafiq, Babar Azam, Bilal Asif, Fawad Alam, Faheem Ashraf, Haris Sohail, Imamul Haq, Imran Khan Snr, Kashif Bhatti, Mohammad Abbas, Mohammad Rizwan (wicketkeeper), Musa Khan, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood, Yasir Shah and Usman Shinwari.