Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) though has included a number of out-of-favour players like Nasir Jamshed, Yasir Hameed, Imran Farhat, Taufiq Umar, Faisal Iqbal and Muhammad Sami in an effort to build a better team for the 2015 World Cup.
The new selection committee headed by former skipper Moin Khan and member Muhammad Akram, who is also head coach at the national cricket academy, said at a press conference here that the idea was to test the fitness of these players.
List of probables: Ahmed Shahzad, Nasir Jamshed, Sharjeel Khan, Taufiq Umar, Shan Masood, Imran Farhat, Yasir Hameed, Khurrum Manzoor, Misbah-ul-Haq, Asad Shafiq, Younis Khan, Umar Akmal, Azhar Ali, Faisal Iqbal, Sohaib Maqsood, Haris Sohail, Fawad Alam, Muhammad Hafeez, Shahid Afridi, Anwar Khan, Bilawal Bhatti, Abdul Rehman, Zulfiqar Babar, Reza Hasan, Atif Maqbool, Yasir Shah, Umar Gul, Muhammad Talha, Ehsan Adil, Muhammad Irfan, Wahab Riaz, Rahat Ali, Sohail Tanvir, Muhammad Sami wicketkeepers Sarfaraz Ahmed and Adnan Akmal.
The new selection committee headed by former skipper Moin Khan and member Muhammad Akram, who is also head coach at the national cricket academy, said at a press conference here that the idea was to test the fitness of these players.
List of probables: Ahmed Shahzad, Nasir Jamshed, Sharjeel Khan, Taufiq Umar, Shan Masood, Imran Farhat, Yasir Hameed, Khurrum Manzoor, Misbah-ul-Haq, Asad Shafiq, Younis Khan, Umar Akmal, Azhar Ali, Faisal Iqbal, Sohaib Maqsood, Haris Sohail, Fawad Alam, Muhammad Hafeez, Shahid Afridi, Anwar Khan, Bilawal Bhatti, Abdul Rehman, Zulfiqar Babar, Reza Hasan, Atif Maqbool, Yasir Shah, Umar Gul, Muhammad Talha, Ehsan Adil, Muhammad Irfan, Wahab Riaz, Rahat Ali, Sohail Tanvir, Muhammad Sami wicketkeepers Sarfaraz Ahmed and Adnan Akmal.