Pakistan team for T20 World Cup: PCB explains the decision to stop the announcement. cricket news
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Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has postponed the announcement of the World Cup squad till the end of May due to fitness and performance related problems of some players. A PCB source said Pakistan will announce its World T20 Cup squad on May 23 or May 24 – the deadline set by the ICC for participating teams to make changes to their squad without permission from the World Cup Technical Committee. Has been done. The management and selectors are concerned about minor injuries to Muhammad Rizwan, Azam Khan, Irfan Khan Niazi and Haris Rauf and will keep an eye on their performances in Ireland and England.
The selectors will announce the squad for the tour of Ireland and England on Thursday and the team management and selectors will assess the fitness and performance of the selected players before announcing the World Cup squad.
So far, India, Australia, England, South Africa, New Zealand have all announced their World Cup teams.
He said, “It (delay) does not matter because all these teams can change their entire squad till May 24, after that changes can be allowed only on the basis of fitness or injury with the approval of the technical committee.” Is.”
“That’s why the PCB and selectors have decided to hold it off until after the first match in England.” The source also said that the selectors wanted to give more time to Babar Azam and other players to settle down and regain the old bonding in the dressing room before the World Cup squad is announced.
“At present we have sent a temporary team to the ICC for public relations and publicity purposes,” the source said.
Probable squad for Ireland and England series: Babar Azam (captain), Muhammad Rizwan, Saeem Ayub, Fakhar Zaman, Iftikhar Ahmed, Azam Khan, Irfan Khan Niazi, Usman Khan, Shadab Khan, Imad Wasim, Usama Mir, Abrar Ahmed, Muhammad Aamir, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah, Abbas Afridi and Aamir Jamal. PTI correspondent AT
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