Fawad, Shoaib, Yasir set to be recalled for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746’s ODIs – Cricket News Update
PCB is all set to recall the discarded batsmen, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/United-Arab-Emirates-c3033.
The series starts from August 28, and to bring some much needed experience and stability to the underperforming batting lineup, the selectors have decided to include these three.
“Their feeling is that the time is right to start planning ahead to stabilise the batting line-up in the ODI and Test formats,” the source said.
“Basically, the selectors feel that the batsmen are not showing consistency in their batting and are not getting big scores as was the requirement of the team. The planning is to not only recall some discarded players like http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yasir-Hameed-c2811 and Fawad Alam but
also give more responsibility to Shoaib Malik and also try out some new faces,” the source further added.
Fawad has not been in ODIs since Nov 2010, when he played against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 at Dubai in the last of the five-match ODI Series. He scored 1 run in the match which Pakistan went on to lose by 57 runs.
He had an average series with the bat against the Proteas where he managed to score 123 runs in five outings at an average of 30.75 with a highest of 59 not out.
Alam has been performing consistently in the domestic circuit and his last year’s aggregate of 945 runs at an average of 67.5 in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, where he was the third highest run scorer, seems to have nudged the selectors.
If selected, Hameed will represent http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 in the shorter format for the first time since 2007, though he played the last of his 25 Tests in 2010 against England.
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c749.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 in September this year.
He played against England in February in the four-match ODI series but his 2 outings could just fetch him 30 runs and he was subsequently dropped for his poor showings.
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