Perennial ‘unfit’ fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar was rewarded when named tolead PCB-XI in the warm up match one-day match against New Zealand tobe played at the National Stadium, Karachi on Sept 16
12-Sep-2001Perennial ‘unfit’ fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar was rewarded when named tolead PCB-XI in the warm up match one-day match against New Zealand tobe played at the National Stadium, Karachi on Sept 16.Opener Imran Nazir has been appointed as vice-captain of the team.Both captain and the vice-captain have been failed to get a place inthe Pakistan squad announced for the three one-day match seriesagainst New Zealand, starting from Sept 19 at Karachi.Aftab Baloch has been named as coach and manager of the team.The team is: Imran Nazir, Salman Butt, Faisal Iqbal, NaveedLatif, Hasan Raza, Shoaib Malik, Atiq-uz-Zaman, Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan,Shoaib Akhtar (captain), Mohammad Zahid, Yasir Arafat. Asim Kamal(12th man).