Pakistan is visiting New Zealand for the second time in a year under the strain of last year’s spot fixing scandal which has had a definite impact on the green shirts. Although they had performed well in the Test series against
South Africa in Abu Dhabi and were successful in drawing the series but this time around, the circumstances are different. Pakistan will be playing two Tests, three Twenty20s and six ODIs, which will be a great test for the both sides to see where they stand
in respect to the 2011 World Cup, which is just round the corner.
Daniel Vettori has replaced New Zealand's most victorious Captain, Stephen Fleming, under whom http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 recorded 28 Test victories. On the other hand, Vetori started his captaincy with a loss against South Africa by 358 runs
that was the nastiest ever defeat of New Zealand by runs.
However, Pakistan is ranked higher than New Zealand in all formats of the games and now it remains to be seen if they can prevail over the lower ranked team. They are the 2009 Twenty20 World Cup Champions so competing in those
events may not be too troublesome but the Kiwis will try their best to get a tremendous start in the series as they had nightmare tour against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 and closed up, losing the
opening two ODIs in addition. Now, this home series will be an immense challenge for the Kiwis as they will try hard to best Pakistan.
As far as the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 team is concerned their last series against South Africa was a good recovery as they had lost the One Day series before that. Abdul Razzaq’s stunning hundred will be remembered for years and years. He delivered
at the right time when Pakistan is preparing for the World Cup. Misbah ul Haq also performed commendably, leading the team in the Test series. Another good news for the green shirt’s is Younis Khan, who made a stunning comeback after a year ,completing a hat
trick of a fourth innings centuries against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 when Pakistan had a target of an enormous 334 on the last day of the Test.
Pakistan’s pace attack, always a threat to the opposition is missing two key fast bowlers, gifted, young Mohammed Aamir and seamer Mohammed Asif. They were suspended after being accused of spot fixing by the ICC (International
Cricket Council). Now all the responsibility is on the shoulders of Umar Gull who is a splendid Twenty20 and One-Day bowler. The Test and Twenty20 squads have been announced with the, One Day side to be announced later before the start of the series.
Twenty20 Squad: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482 (capt), Adnan Akmal, Younis Khan, Umar Akmal, Abdul Razzaq, Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir, Tanvir Ahmed, Shoaib Akhtar, Wahab Riaz, Abdur Rehman, Mohammed Hafeez, Ahmed Shahzad, Saeed Ajmal, Fawad Alam
Test Squad: http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Misbah-ul-Haq-c1972 (capt), Tanvir Ahmed, Sohail Tanvir, Adnan Akmal, Mohammad Hafeez, Azhar Ali, Umar Akmal, Younis Khan, Taufeeq Umar, Umar Gul, Asad Shafiq, Saeed Ajmal, Wahab Riaz, Abdur Rehman.
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