LAHORE, Dec 24: Pakistan team will play first of two practice matches series against PCB Eleven at the Gaddafi Stadium Tuesday. The second match will be played at the same venue on Dec 26.

The matches are being organised to provide the national team practice before leaving Bangladesh on Jan 2.

The Pakistan team will be picked from the following:

Waqar Younis (captain), Saeed Anwar, Taufiq Umar, Faisal Iqbal, Inzamamul Haq (vice-captain), Yousaf Youhana, Naved Latif, Younis Khan, Rashid Latif, Saqlain Mushtaq, Danish Kaneria, Wasim Akram, Mohammad Sami, Abdur Razzaq, Shoaib Akhtar, Shadab Kabir.

The PCB XI (Dec 25): Imran Farhat, Imran Nazir, Ijaz Ahmad Junior, Hasan Raza, Bazid Khan, Azhar Mahmood (captain), Shoaib Malik, Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan, Fazle Akbar, Abdur Rauf, Kamran Akmal, Qaiser Abbas (12th man).

The PCB Eleven for Dec 26 match is: Imran Nazir, Shahid Afridi, Misbah-ul-Haq, Hasan Raza, Bazid Khan, Azhar Mahmood (captain), Shabbir Ahmad, Rana Naveed-ul-Hasan, Shoaib Malik, Kamran Akmal, Abdur Rauf, Agha Sabir (12th man).

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