Fast bowlers Mohammad Irfan and Ehsan Adil are among five players who
have been called up to the Pakistan Test squad for the tour of South
Africa, which begins at the end of the month. Batsmen Nasir Jamshed and
Haris Sohail, and wicketkeeper Sarfraz Ahmed were the other inclusions
who were not on the Test tour of Sri Lanka in June and July 2012.
The players left out were wicketkeeper Adnan Akmal, fast bowlers Aizaz
Cheema and Mohammad Sami, batsman Mohammad Ayub and Afaq Raheem.
Irfan and Jamshed performed impressively in the ODI series in India.
Irfan made an impact because of his height, using his seven-foot frame
to generate pace and bounce, Jamshed scored two hundreds in three
matches and was the Player of the Series. Haris Sohail was part of the
ODI squad to India but did not get a game.
Adil was part of Pakistan's Under-19 team at the 2012 World Cup
Australia, where they made the quarterfinals. Sarfraz last played a Test
for Pakistan in 2010, in Hobart. His last ODI was in Colombo in June
2012.
Pakistan play three Tests in South Africa, in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Centurion. The first Test begins on February 1.
Test squad: Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), Mohammad Hafeez, Nasir Jamshed,
Azhar Ali, Umar Gul, Asad Shafiq, Younis Khan, Junaid Khan, Mohammad
Irfan, Ehsan Adil, Saeed Ajmal, Adbur Rehman, Haris Sohail, Faisal
Iqbal, Taufeeq Umar, Sarfraz Ahmed (wk).
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