Quick bowler Afridi back in Pakistan team for white-ball series

ISLAMABAD (AP)– Pakistan recalled quick bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi for the white-ball cricket series against West Indies, beginning at Broward County Stadium in Lauderhill, Florida.The 3 Twenty20 matches in the U.S.– on July 31, Aug. 2 and 3– will be followed by three ODI games in Trinidad and Tobago.Advertisement Afridi, who is also in the ODI squad, was surprisingly omitted from

Pakistan’s last 2 T20 series versus Bangladesh regardless of leading Lahore Qalandars to its third Pakistan Super League title in the last four years with a rich haul of 19 wickets this year.In Afridi’s absence, Pakistan routed Bangladesh 3-0 at home however lost 2-1 to Bangladesh at Dhaka in a series

which ended Thursday.Fast bowler Haris Rauf, who was forced to miss out on the series against Bangladesh due to the fact that of a hamstring injury he sustained throughout

Major League Cricket(MLC )in the U.S., has actually recuperated and was called in the T20 squad.Pakistan’s speed attack was further enhanced Friday with the return of Hasan Ali for both T20s and ODIs against West Indies.Advertisement The selectors dropped pace bowlers Abbas Afridi and Salman Mirza, who both took part in the T20 series in Bangladesh, and maintained all-rounders Hussain Talat and Mohammad Nawaz.Middle-order batter Hasan Nawaz is the only uncapped player called in the ODI team. Nawaz scored Pakistan’s fastest-ever T20 century versus New Zealand in March this year.Salman Ali Agha will continue to lead the T20 side while wicketkeeper-batter

Mohammad Rizwan was called skipper for the ODI series. ___ Pakistan: Twenty20 team: Salman Ali Agha (captain), Abrar Ahmed, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Hasan

Nawaz, Hussain Talat, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Haris, Mohammad Nawaz, Sahibzada Farhan, Saim Ayub, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Sufiyan Muqeem.Advertisement ODI team: Mohammad Rizwan(

captain),

Salman Ali Agha, Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Hasan Ali, Hasan Nawaz, Hussain Talat, Mohammad Haris, Mohammad Nawaz, Naseem Shah, Saim Ayub, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Sufiyan Muqeem. ___ AP cricket: https://apnews.com/hub/cricket