{"id":53697,"date":"2024-10-23T16:59:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T11:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=53697"},"modified":"2024-10-23T16:59:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T11:59:06","slug":"pakistan-to-field-unchanged-xi-against-england-in-series-decider-rawalpindi-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-to-field-unchanged-xi-against-england-in-series-decider-rawalpindi-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to field unchanged XI against England in series-decider Rawalpindi Test"},"content":{"rendered":"

RAWALPINDI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has confirmed the unchanged starting XI<\/a> for the third Test against England, scheduled from October 24 to 28 at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.<\/p>\n

The announcement came a day after England named their spin-laden line-up to match Pakistan’s spin attack that earned hosts a resounding victory<\/a> in Multan.<\/p>\n

Visitors made two changes in their Playing XI yesterday, bringing in leg-spinner Rehan Ahmed and seamer Gus Atkinson in place of Brydon Carse and Matthew Potts.<\/p>\n

Over the weekend, the curators have put everything including deploying industrial-sized fans and heaters with windbreakers surrounding the strip to dry the surface in Pindi to replicate last week’s turner in Multan which helped Pakistan pull a 152-run win to level the three-match series 1-1.<\/p>\n

“It’s an interesting pitch,” Pakistan’s head coach Jason Gillespie said. “Since I’ve been here, there’ve been fans on which we’ve all seen. So obviously it’s very dry and not a lot of grass on it. We probably expect it to favor the slower balls here.”<\/p>\n

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As the pitch in Rawalpindi is anticipated to favor spin bowlers, the Green Shirts have decided to field the same spin-heavy bowling attack, featuring Sajid Khan, Noman Ali, and Zahid Mahmood. Aamir Jamal, who also provides Pakistan depth in batting will play as the sole pacer.<\/p>\n

Pakistan will be looking for their first home series win since beating South Africa 2-0 in February 2021 and their first series win after a 2-0 victory in Sri Lanka in July.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Pakistan Playing XI:<\/strong>\u00a0Saim Ayub, Abdullah Shafique, Shan Masood (c), Kamran Ghulam, Saud Shakeel (vc), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Salman Ali Agha, Aamir Jamal, Noman Ali, Sajid Khan, Zahid Mahmood.<\/p>\n

England Playing XI:<\/strong>\u00a0Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jamie Smith (wk), Gus Atkinson, Rehan Ahmed, Jack Leach, Shoaib Bashir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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