Centurion Cricket Ground
The Boxing Day Test match will be organized from 26th December. The test matches played on this date all over the world are known as Boxing Day Test. Like the Indian team will also play a test match against Australia in Melbourne on 26 December. This will also be called Boxing Day Test. At the same time, Pakistan team is also fully prepared for the Boxing Day Test against South Africa in Centurion. Meanwhile, Pakistan team has announced its playing 11 for this test match. A star player has returned to their team. In such a situation, let us know which players have got a chance in the playing 11.
These players got a chance
The first match of the two-match Test series between South Africa and Pakistan will be played on 26 December. Shan Masood is captaining Pakistan in this match. Babar Azam has returned to Pakistan’s playing 11. Babar Azam was out in the middle of the last Test series. Naseem Shah is also a part of the playing 11. Pakistan’s opener Abdullah Shafiq’s name is not in the playing 11. In such a situation, Shan Masood will come to open in his place. Whereas Babar Azam will play this test match at number three.
South Africa gave strong performance to Pakistan
Earlier, Pakistan team played T20 and ODI series for South Africa. Even though they had to face defeat in the T20 series, Pakistan made a strong comeback in the ODI series and clean swept South Africa 3-0. Sam Ayub had performed brilliantly for Pakistan. He also scored a century. In such a situation, the Pakistani team and fans expect similar performance from him in the Test series. Seeing the strong performance of Pakistan, the South African team will not try to take them lightly.
Pakistan’s playing 11 for the first test
Shan Masood (captain), Sam Ayub, Babar Azam, Kamran Ghulam, Mohammad Rizwan (wicketkeeper), Saud Shakeel (vice-captain), Salman Ali Aga, Aamir Jamal, Naseem Shah, Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Abbas
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