Pakistan tour of England: 20 players to travel England on Sunday

Initially, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) revealed a 29-men-squad for Pakistan tour of England but amidst the positive testing for the COVID-19 tests, the squad has been shortened to 20 players and only the listed below names will be visiting on 28th July, Sunday.

Azhar Ali, Babar Azam, Abid Ali, Asad Shafiq, Abid Ali, Asad Shafiq, Faheem Ashraf, Fawad Alam, Iftikhar Alam, Imad Wasim, Khudshil Shah, Mohammad Abbas, Musa Khan, Naseem Shah, Rohail Nazir, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood, Sohail Khan, Usman Shinwari, and Yasir Shah.

It is to be noted that Zafar Gohar will be joining the squad in the middle of the tour. Haider Ali, who got his maiden call for international call is now no more a part of the squad as he has been tested positive for Coronavirus twice.

Pakistan tour of England: 20 players to travel England on Sunday

20 players, 11 support staff to travel to Manchester on Sundayhttps://t.co/rjXWqcEc4O https://t.co/9T8Yg1BsVw

— PCB Media (@TheRealPCBMedia) June 27, 2020

20کھلاڑی اور11رکنی اسپورٹ اسٹاف اتوار کو مانچسٹر روانہ ہوگا

•موسیٰ خان اور روحیل نذیراسکواڈ کے ہمراہ روانہ ہوں گے؛ظفر گوہر سیریز کی تیاریوں کے دوران انگلینڈ میں ٹیم کو جوائن کریں گے https://t.co/AGsKDPEWwc

— PCB Media (@TheRealPCBMedia) June 27, 2020

Meanwhile, the rest of the players, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Hafeez, Shadab Khan, Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Hasnain, and Fakhar Zaman are now counted among the negatives.

However, ECB announced that the players who tested positive earlier this week won’t be traveling to England. It doesn’t imply the idea if those players can be allowed who will be tested negative ahead of the other two tests. On the other hand, PCB is now ready to travel with a 20-men squad for the Pakistan tour of England. The two sides will be featuring in three tests and three T20Is and the first match is to be played by 30th July.

The players will be isolating themselves for fourteen days before beginning the cricketing activities. Moreover, PCB has banned the usage of social media for the players to avoid honey traps by the other genders.