LAHORE: Pakistan’s Test team will meet in Dubai before leaving for Johannesburg for the upcoming two-match red-ball series against South Africa.
The team will depart from Karachi, Lahore and meet in Dubai.
Several players, including Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, Salman Ali Agha and Saim Ayub, are already in South Africa due to their ongoing commitments in the white-ball formats and will shift their focus to the upcoming Test matches.
Naseem Shah, Kamran Ghulam and Abdullah Shafique, who are part of the ODI and Test squads, will also join the camp ahead of the matches.
Additionally, Shan Masood, Saud Shakeel, Khurram Shehzad, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Abbas, Aamir Jamal, Haseebullah and Noman Ali will also join the team.
Red-ball coach Jason Gillespie is expected to arrive in South Africa tomorrow to oversee the team’s preparations for the aforementioned series.
Pakistan currently sits seventh in the 2023-25 ICC World Test Championship (WTC) points table with 40 points from 10 matches, having won 4 of them.
In contrast, the Proteas are top of the standings, just one win away from securing a potential WTC final spot. He accumulated 76 points in 10 matches, with an impressive winning percentage of 63.33%.
Pakistan Test Squad: Shan Masood (capt), Saud Shakeel (vice-captain), Aamir Jamal, Abdullah Shafique, Babar Azam, Haseebullah (wk), Kamran Ghulam, Khurram Shahzad, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Abbas, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Naseem Shah, Noman Ali, Saim Ayub and Salman Ali Agha
Pakistan-South Africa Test Series Schedule:
- December 26th to 30th – First Test, Centurion
- January 3rd to 7th – Second test, Cape Town
Sohail Imran is a senior reporter at Geo News.
