PCB ANNOUNCES SQUAD FOR AUSTRALIA SERIES. IN U.A.E

Pakistan announces their odi and t20 squad for australia series but left out senior players umer gul and younis khan from their squad...

Squad for ODIs against Australia

• Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), Nasir Jamshed, Mohammad Hafeez, Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq, Umar Akmal, Kamran Akmal (wk), Shahid Afridi, Sohail Tanvir, Aizaz Cheema, Saeed Ajmal, Imran Farhat, Shoaib Malik, Abdur Rehman, Junaid Khan, Anwar Ali

• In: Anwar Ali, Nasir Jamshed, Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Junaid Khan

• Out: Mohammad Sami, Rahat Ali, Sarfraz Ahmed, Younis Khan, Umar Gul

The selectors have decided to drop Rahat Ali, who needs more grooming and he is a future prospect, while Anwar Ali has been in the pipeline for quite a long time," Qasim said. "He has been included to get some confidence and much-needed exposure."

Akmal is our first-choice as wicketkeeper-batsman for limited-overs cricket mainly because of his assured batting skills," Qasim said. "So drafting him in the ODI squad could help him gain more confidence ahead of the World T20."

Anwar made a name for himself during Pakistan's successful Under-19 World Cup campaign in Sri Lanka in 2006. He went wicketless in his only opportunity for Pakistan, against Zimbabwe in Canada. He is also a handy lower-order batsman, with a first-class century to his name.

MIANDAD GETS WIDER ROLE IN PCB.

FORMER  Pakistan captain, Javed Miandad, has been entrusted with the responsibility of looking after the domestic cricket and national team’s affairs, a role he has been asking for since his inception in the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in 2008. The veteran cricketer, however, will have no role in the administrative affairs of the Board. “Miandad has been given the task of looking after the domestic cricket and Pakistan team affairs. The task of dealing with the ICC and member boards and finalising tours and series remains with the chief operating officer,” a source was quoted as saying. 
 
“He has been given what he has been asking for since he came into the Board in 2008 - the responsibility of looking after domestic cricket and Pakistan team issues,” he added. He said under the new set-up Zakir Khan, who looked after domestic cricket, and Intikhab Alam, who was incharge of the national cricket academy and international cricket, would now be reporting to Miandad who will in turn report to the Chairman and COO. The source said that Miandad was delighted with the change in the Board’s attitude and had already started giving his inputs on many cricketing matters including reorganising the domestic cricket.
Miandad was recently asked by the Board to work with the Pakistan senior and under-19 batsmen while they were training in Lahore. The veteran of 124 tests has been in the PCB since the time of former chairman, Ijaz Butt, but always complained about not being given enough responsibilities and his expertise not being utilised properly. The source said Miandad would also have say in the selection of the national one-day squad for the series against Australia that is expected to be announced next week. KISTAN