The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) are planning to send around 40-45 players for New Zealand tour scheduled for December 2020 to January 2021. With the two teams scheduled to play a two-match Test and a three-match T20I series, Pakistan might be following England’s strategy to utilize two teams for two different formats.
As England played a different squad for the T20Is and the test series against Pakistan and were dominant anyway, Pakistan might be thinking for a change to dig maxim out of a player and to notice every player’s performance. However, a source from the PCB revealed that due to the COVID-19 conditions, they need to take a massive amount of players, but due to the Quaid-e-Azam trophy’s schedule, all of the senior players cannot fly at once for the tour. Hence, the board has to take away A squad with them.
PCB planning to send the senior team and A squad for New Zealand tour
“An enhanced number of players will be in both squads due to strict COVID-19 regulations and protocols in New Zealand and the players and officials, after reaching there early, have to spend 14 days in quarantine and enter a bio-secure bubble before starting their matches,” the source said.
“The problem is that due to the COVID-19 situation if so many top players are sent to New Zealand, the quality of the domestic competitions will be badly hit,” the source added.
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Before New Zealand, Men in Green are scheduled to play a three-match ODI and T20I home-series as Zimbabwe are all set to tour Pakistan in November-December.
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