1st ODI: Pakistan win toss, choose to bat towards Afghanistan

It’s a residence sequence for Afghanistan who can’t stage worldwide cricket in their very own nation due to safety fears.

Earlier in the present day, Afghanistan group suffered a significant setback forward of sequence towards Pakistan.

Learn: Najibullah Zadran ruled out of ODI series against Pakistan

Center-order batter Najibullah Zadran was dominated out of the sequence as a consequence of a knee damage and might be changed by Shahidullah.

Zadran is a key participant within the Afghanistan group, having performed 88 ODI matches over the course of his profession. He has a mean of 30.04 and strike-rate of 89.42 in 50-over cricket with the assistance of 100 and 15 fifties.

In the meantime, Shahidullah has solely performed a solitary ODI which got here towards the Netherlands in January 2022 in Doha.

The sequence will give each groups an opportunity to arrange for the Asia Cup, which begins on August 30.

Sequence Schedule

22 Aug – First ODI, Hambantota

24 Aug – Second ODI, Hambantota

26 Aug – Third ODI, Colombo

Squads

Pakistan: Abdullah Shafique, Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam (c), Salman Ali Agha, Iftikhar Ahmed, Tayyab Tahir, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Mohammad Haris (wk), Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Usama Mir, Faheem Ashraf, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi.

Afghanistan: Hashmatullah Shahidi (c), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ikram Alikhil (wk), Ibrahim Zadran, Riaz Hassan, Rahmat Shah, Shahidullah, Mohammad Nabi, Azmatullah Omarzai, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Mujeeb Ur Rehman, Fazal Haq Farooqi, Abdul Rahman, Mohammad Saleem Safi and Wafadar Momand.