Australia’s cricket team returns to Pakistan for a historic series after a 24-year absence
Members of the 18-man squad selected for Australia’s first visit; to Pakistan in 24 years arrived in Islamabad early Sunday morning on a chartered plane. The previous time Australia visited Pakistan was in 1998; when they won the three-match Test series 1-0 and swept the three one-day internationals. Australia’s cricket team returns to Pakistan for a historic series after a 24-year absence
Vice-captain Steve Smith, Usman Khawaja, Ashton Agar, and Mitchell Swepson; all of whom were born in Islamabad, expressed their enthusiasm for the three-Test series that begins on Friday.
The tour will mark Pat Cummins’ first foreign Tests since taking over as captain; as well as the start of the post-Justin Langer era following the coach’s departure earlier this month.
For the Test series, which shifts to Karachi and then Lahore for the second and third games; as well as the three ODIs and lone T20I in Rawalpindi; Andrew McDonald is heading the side on an interim basis.
Since an attack by Islamist extremists on the Sri Lanka team bus in Lahore in 2009; which killed six policemen and two civilians, international teams have mainly avoided Pakistan. For more than six years, Pakistan’s national teams were obliged to play home matches outside of the country.
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New Zealand’s limited-overs tour to Pakistan was called off in September last year because; to security concerns just before the toss in the opening one-day international at Rawalpindi. Following New Zealand’s lead, England canceled its short tour of Pakistan just before the T20 World Cup in October.
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New Zealand, on the other hand, will make up for the cancelled trip of Pakistan; this year by playing 10 white-ball matches in April 2023.
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