The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), on Monday, introduced the Pakistan Males’s squad for the drawing close One-Day World (ODI) sequence in opposition to West Indies, beginning June 08 in Rawalpindi.

All-rounder Shadab Khan has returned to the ODI outfit and brought again the vice-captain place after effectively improving from harm. Likewise, top-order batter Abdullah Shafique and left-arm spinner Mohammad Nawaz were referred to as up for the three-match sequence in opposition to the Caribbeans.

Particularly, the likes of Asif Afridi, Asif Ali, Haider Ali, Saud Shakeel and Usman Qadir, who have been all a part of the 21-man squad in Pakistan’s earlier sequence in opposition to Australia at house in March-April previous this 12 months, were excluded from the line-up.

“Because the ODIs in opposition to the West Indies are a part of the ICC Males’s Cricket Global Cup 2023 qualification, we have now made up our minds to provide the most productive likelihood to our aspect to gather most issues and improve our possibilities of progressing at once for the top 50-over match,” mentioned leader selector Muhammad Wasim in an respectable commentary.

“We’ve retained the similar core of avid gamers, in order that they additional determine themselves within the structure. I’m hoping this bunch will proceed the shape they won from the Australia sequence. For the Australia ODIs, we had additionally introduced backup avid gamers as quilt to these avid gamers who have been sporting accidents. Gamers akin to Mohammad Nawaz and Shadab Khan are actually absolutely have compatibility, which has allowed us to go away out Asif Afridi and Usman Qadir. Alternatively, Usman, along side Asif Ali and Haider Ali, stay in our plans for the shortest structure as we have now a chain of T20Is coated up this 12 months, together with the ICC Males’s T20 Global Cup 2022,” he added.

This is Pakistan Squad for West Indies ODIs:

Babar Azam (c), Shadab Khan (vc), Abdullah Shafique, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Iftikhar Ahmed, Imam-ul-Haq, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Haris (wk), Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Mohammad Wasim Junior, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shahnawaz Dahani and Zahid Mahmood.