Pakistan cricket team batsmen Babar Azam, Captain Mohammad Rizwan, and pacer Naseem Shah arrived in Saudi Arabia on Saturday after being removed from the national T20 squad.
After destructive performance in the Champions Trophy 2025, Pakistan made major changes to falling into its squad. Babar Azam And because of the poor rate of strike due to Mohammad Rizwan, he was highly criticized.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) changed the squad and gave the youth a chance.
Nassim Shah was also released from the T20 squad while retaining his position in the ODI squad.
When he left the ODI series, pacers Shah Shah Afridi and Harsh Rauf were also part of the T20 squad.
On the other hand, head coach of a press conference, Aqib Javed, made it clear that the time to play invading cricket with the youth is to prepare the scheduled World Cup 2026 in India and Sri Lanka.
Mohammad Rizwan was removed from the T20 Capital and was replaced with Salman Ali Agha.
The former T20 captain was retained as a one -day captain.
The National T20 party began its preparations for the scheduled T20 series against New Zealand on March 16, 2025, as the first camp was set up at the LCCA Ground in Lahore.
In addition, during the holy month of Ramadan, Babar, Rizwan, and Naseem left Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah.
After performing Umrah, the star player will join the ODI team and leave for New Zealand. So the three -match ODI series will start on March 29, 2025. The tour will end on April 5, 2025.
