Pakistan and Zimbabwe set for the first ODI of the tour, Pakistan clearly favorite for the match but Zimbabwe team has developed slightly during their last tour against India, they gave an excellent fight against champions.
Pakistan, after taking T20 series 2-0, confident for beating Zimbabwe in ODIs. Zimbabwe has asked lot of questions to Pakistan in T20, it will be interesting how they play against good team in ODIs. The inform batsmen, Misbah will captain Pakistan in ODIs. He is yet to score century in ODI, this is Excellent opportunity for Misbah to get first hundred against Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe on the other hand will play their heart to get their first victory of the tours. These matches always been tough for better sides as their opponent has nothing to lose.
Ahmed Shezad . who performed great in T20s , will look to continue his form in ODIs. He was just two runs away from getting first T20 century from Pakistan in 2nd T20. Nasir Jamshed , an exciting young cricketer, can play good hand for Pakistan. Pakistan will miss Umer Akmal in the tour , who is dropped for fitness issues.
As if all the responsibility of being Zimbabwe's leading batsman and captain wasn't enough, Brendan Taylor also dearly needs to rouse his side at this juncture, with both words as a leader and deeds with the bat. That this hasn't been a productive season for him won't help, but form as a constraint fades before the enormity of the task in front of him.
Form guide:
(last five completed matches, most recent first)Pakistan WWTLW
Zimbabwe LLLLL
Team news:
Captain Misbah-ul-Haq, Abdur Rehman and Asad Shafiq are the additions to
the Pakistan squad for the ODIs in place of Sohail Tanvir, Zulfiqar
Babar and Sohaib Maqsood, although there was a case for keeping the
inexperienced batsman Maqsood around the team for the ODI leg.
Pakistan (possible) 1 Nasir Jamshed, 2 Ahmed Shehzad, 3 Mohammad
Hafeez, 4 Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), 5 Asad Shafiq/Umar Amin, 6 Shahid
Afridi, 7 Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), 8 Saeed Ajmal, 9 Asad Ali/Abdur Rehman, 10
Junaid Khan, 11 Mohammad Irfan
In another unfortunate reminder of how things are, Zimbabwe are yet to announce their ODI squad.
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