Pakistan and Zimbabwe will play first One Day International (ODI) of three match cricket series on Thursday at Harare Sports Club in Zimbabwean capital.
Watch the Live Stream HERE and HERE. The series opener will start at 0730 GMT on Thursday, Oct. 1.
Pakistan is looking to the win series opener in order to clean sweep the three-match series against Zimbabwe. It completed a 2-0 T20 series victory over the hosts on Sunday.
Pakistan's selectors again placed faith in spinner Bilal Asif by retaining him in the ODI squad.
"In a separate discussion with Misbah-ul-Haq, it was put forth by the Pakistan Test captain that since the England team contains five left-handed batsmen and because of Hafeez's inability to bowl at international level, we were left with no offspin bowling options in the Test squad," chief selector Haroon Rashid said in a statement, according to Cricinfo.
Zimbabwean skipper Elton Chigumbura hopes that his team will bounce back in the ODI series after T20 loss.
"I can repeat what I said after the last game. We were disappointing [sic] again with the bat, but the bowlers were good. We need to make sure we up our game for the ODI series," said Chigumbura, according to AFP.
Probable Squads, according to Geo Super.
Pakistan
Azhar Ali, Mohammad Hafeez, Ahmed Shehzad, Sohaib Maqsood, Shoaib Malik, Babar Azam, Sarfraz Ahmed , Mohammad Rizwan, Immad Wasim, Anwar Ali, Wahab Riaz, Yasir Shah, Rahat Ali, Mohammad Irfan, Asad Shafiq, Bilal Asif.
Zimbabwe
Elton Chigumbura, Sikandar Raza Butt, Chamunorwa Chibhabha, Graeme Cremer, Craig Ervine, Luke Jongwe, Neville Madziva, Hamilton Masakadza, Christopher Mpofu, Richmond Mutumbami, Taurai Muzarabani, John Nyumbu, Tinashe Panyangara, Prosper Utseya, Malcolm Waller, Sean Williams.
