Fawad Alam has been appointed to the Pakistan Test squad for his historic home series against Sri Lanka starting in Rawalpindi on Wednesday, December 11th.
34-year-old Alam returns to the test after a decade, having last played in the format against New Zealand in Dunedin in November 2009. He has earned a recall after showing good form in the ongoing Quaid-e-Azam Trophy – Pakistan’s first-class domestic competition.
The top batsman has won 781 runs with 71 in the competition and won four hundred and fifty-six. In his last six games for Sindh, he scored 116, 211, 65, 107, 29 * and 92. The three hundred were all scored at the National Stadium in Karachi, the venue of Pakistan’s second test against Sri Lanka.
Squad for #PAKvSL Test series. pic.twitter.com/wglKwflMDe
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) December 7, 2019
Fawad will take the place of Iftikhar Ahmed on the team, having only completed 44 runs in his four innings on Pakistan’s Australia Tour. Muhammad Musa, 19-year-old Paceman, was also expelled from the home series.
Usman Shinwari was appointed to the 16-member squad. Shinwari has collected eleven wickets in his last four appearances at the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy, including two three-wicket moves.
Pakistan Squad Against Sri Lanka
Azhar Ali (c), Abid Ali, Asad Shafiq, Babar Azam, Fawad Alam, Haris Sohail, Imam-ul-Haq, Imran Khan, Kashif Bhatti, Mohammad Abbas, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi, Shan Masood, Yasir Shah, Usman Shinwari
