A 16-man squad was named for the tour which features one test, three one-dayers and two Twenty20 matches, and starts with a tour match on August 28 followed by the test in Bulawayo starting from September 1.
Misbah-ul-Haq will lead the team in all three formats.
“Because it’s a short tour we have selected only one squad for all three formats of the game and have rested Riaz and Gul in a hope to try out some youngsters,” chief selector Mohsin Khan said.
Kamran Akmal has been out of the team since the tour of the West Indies in May-June this year.
All-rounder and former captain Shoaib Malik, not selected since last year’s tour of England, is on stand-by.
Both Kamran and Malik are under suspicion of match-fixing and have not been cleared by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) integrity committee.
“If Malik is cleared by the integrity committee, then he may get a chance for the tour because he is fit and has scored well in the domestic season,” said Khan.
Leg-spinner Danish Kaneria was also not considered because of suspicions over him in a spot-fixing case which saw him arrested in England last year.
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Also missing from the squad is all-rounder Shahid Afridi, who retired from international cricket last month after being dumped as one-day captain and refused to return under the current PCB set-up with Ijaz Butt as chairman.— Supersport
