Pakistan leaves out Shoaib Akhtar for Bangladesh tour
Pakistan on Wednesday omitted yet-to-be fully fit Shoaib Akhtar from a 16-man squad for this month’s tour of Bangladesh where they play two Twenty20 and five One-Day Internationals.
The team departs on March 7 and play the first of two Twenty20 matches on March 10. The other Twenty20 and the first three ODI matches are scheduled for Dhaka.
The last two One-day matches will be played in Chittagong.
Squad: Younis Khan (captain), Salman Butt, Shahid Afridi, Nasir Jamshed, Ahmed Shahzad, Shoaib Malik, Misbah-ul-Haq, Kamran Akmal, Fawad Alam, Umar Gul, Sohail Tanver, Mohammad Aamir, Yasir Arafat, Yasir Shah, Rao Iftikhar, Sarfraz Ahmed.
