England in Pakistan: Injured Shaheen Afridi out of hosts' squad while Abrar Ahmed and Mohammad Ali called up
Shaheen Afridi was injured while catching out Harry Brook as
England beat Pakistan in the T20 World Cup final earlier this month
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Pakistan have named an
18-man squad for the three-Test series against England next month.
Fast bowler Shaheen Afridi will miss the
series after he underwent appendicitis surgery at the weekend.
Fawad Alam, Yasir Shah and Hasan Ali have all
dropped out of the squad having been part of the Sri Lanka tour in July earlier
this year.
Leg-spinner Abrar Ahmed and fast bowler
Mohammad Ali have received their maiden Test call-ups.
Ahmed has taken 43 wickets at an average of
21.95 in the domestic tournament and Ali has claimed 56 in the last two
domestic seasons.
Uncapped pair Mohammad Wasim and Zahid Mahmood, part of the squad for the three Tests against Australia in March, are the other two players to come in.
Afridi is also recovering from a knee injury
he suffered during Pakistan's defeat by England in the T20 World Cup final earlier
this month.
The opening Test in Rawalpindi will be
England's first in Pakistan in 17 years and the three Tests are part of the ICC
World Test Championship.
Pakistan squad
Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan, Imam-ul-Haq,
Abdullah Shafique, Azhar Ali, Abrar Ahmed, Mohammad Ali, Shan Masood, Faheem
Ashraf, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Nawaz, Nauman Ali, Saud Shakeel, Zahid Mahmood,
Mohammad Wasim, Naseem Shah, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfaraz Ahmed.
