LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board on the request forwarded by the team management has allowed opener Ahmed Shehzad to return home from the ongoing tour of West Indies where Pakistan are playing the last Test against the home team.

“Ahmed Shehzad had made a request to the team management to return home from the ongoing tour due to his mother’s illness and birth of his first child. The opening batsman will now join the team in England [for the ICC Champions Trophy],” a PCB press release stated.

Right-handed Shehzad, 25, failed to score productively on the West Indies tour and finally he was dropped from the ongoing third Test, and was replaced by left-handed Shan Masood.

Published in Dawn, May 13th, 2017