I decided I want some continuity with the players I am using, so am continuing along with mostly Pakistani matches from the mid 80's for now.
After some thought I decided Pakistan will tour Zimbabwe in August 1985/6 for a 3 Test tour.
The tour will also feature 5 ODI's, 3 warmup 3 day matches, and 3 warmup 50 over matches.
Zimbabwe didn't have Test status until 1992, but I decided to grant them Test status for this series retrospectively.
It is a ficticious tour featuring the squads used at the time drawn from players officially carded.
Pakistan were a strong team in 1985/6, but many future Test players had made their First Class and List A debuts for Zimbabwe by this stage, so I can draw up a pretty effective Zimbabwean squad.
Graeme Hick was still playing for Zimbabwe in 1985/6, so I am letting him get his first taste of Test cricket for his country of birth.
Pakistan squad:
Mudassar Nazar, Mohsin Khan, Shoaib Mohammad, Rizwan-uz-Zaman, Rameez Raja, Qasim Omar, Mansoor Akhtar, Javed Miandad, Zaheer Abbas, Saleem Malik, Imran Khan (c), Manzoor Elahi, Naved Anjum, Ashraf Ali (wk), Saleem Yousuf (wk), Anil Dalpat (wk), Tahir Naqqash, Wasim Akram, Abdul Qadir, Iqbal Qasim, Tauseef Ahmed, Zakir Khan, Mohsin Kamal, Sikander Bakht, Azeem Hafeez
Zimbabwean squad:
K.J.Arnott, A.H.Shah, G.A.Hick, A.J.Pycroft (c), D.L.Houghton (wk), A.C.Waller, A.Flower (wk), I.P.Butchart, W.R.James (wk), E.A.Brandes, D.H.Brain, A.J.Traicos, A.I.C.Lock, M.P.Jarvis
The first match of the tour will be a 3 day First Class warmup match against Zimbabwe 'B' at Harare.
No comments:
Post a Comment