LAHORE, Oct 9: Discarded Test opener Taufiq Umar was named on Tuesday to lead the 14-member PCB XI squad that will play a warm-up one-day match against South Africa at Bagh-i-Jinnah on Oct 16, before the five-match one-day series against Pakistan.
Aaqib Javed has been appointed as the squad’s coach.
Squad: Taufiq Umar (captain), Babar Naeem, Shahid Yousuf, Bazid Khan, Naved Latif, Ahmed Shahzad, Adnan Raza, Mansoor Amjad, Zulqarnain Haider, Abdur Rauf, Rao Iftikhar, Mohammad Irshad, Umar Amin, Hafiz Saad.—Sports Reporter