Pakistan Team departs for New Zealand Tour

KARACHI: The national cricket team has departed for New Zealand tour on Sunday morning from Karachi’s Jinnah International airport, team ...

KARACHI: The national cricket team has departed for New Zealand tour on Sunday morning from Karachi’s Jinnah International airport, team will be reaching New Zealand.

The national team is travelling through a private airline, earlier Pakistan side trained hard in its training and fitness camp held by Pakistan Cricket Board for 16 days which finished on Thursday.

Pakistan team is scheduled to play 3 One Day Internationals (ODIs) and 3 T20s in their visit starting from January 15.

Pakistan T20 squad: Ahmed Shahzad, Mohammad Hafeez, Sohaib Maqsood, Shahid Afridi, Emad Wasim, Anwar Ali, Amir Yamin, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Wahab Riaz, Umar Gul, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Amir, and Saad Nasim will be part of the Twenty20 team.

Pakistan ODI squad: Ahmed Shahzad, Azhar Ali, Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Asad Shafiq, Babar Azam, Sohaib Maqsood, Zafar Gohar, Emad Wasim, Anwar Ali, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Wahab Riaz, Rahat Ali, Mohammad Irfan, Mohammad Rizwan and Mohammad Amir.

Schedule:

1st T20I – New Zealand vs Pakistan

Fri Jan 15 06:00 GMT | 11:00 PST | at Auckland

2nd T20I – New Zealand vs Pakistan

Sun Jan 17 06:00 GMT | 11:00 PST | at Hamilton

3rd T20I – New Zealand vs Pakistan

Fri Jan 22 06:00 GMT | 11:00 PST | at Wellington

1st ODI – New Zealand vs Pakistan

Mon Jan 25 22:00 GMT | 03:00 PST | at Wellington

2nd ODI – New Zealand vs Pakistan

Thu Jan 28 01:00 GMT | 06:00 PST | at Napier

3rd ODI – New Zealand vs Pakistan

Sun Jan 31 22:00 GMT | 03:00 PST | at Auckland