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Umar Gul to miss out of Rawalpindi Test
Lahore, Apr 10: In a big setback to Pakistan, match-winning seamer Umar Gul will miss the series-deciding third cricket Test starting in Rawalpindi on Tuesday.
Lahore, Apr 10: In a big setback to Pakistan, match-winning seamer Umar Gul will miss the series-deciding third cricket Test starting in Rawalpindi on Tuesday.
Gul, who picked a five-wicket haul in India's first innings in the Lahore Test and was declared man-of-the-match, is suffering from cramps, Chief Selector Wasim Bari said while announcing a 17-member squad for the Rawalpindi Test.
Moin Khan, Shabbir Ahmed, Saqlain Mushtaq and all-rounder Abdul Razzaq, who did not play the Lahore Test, failed again to find a place in the squad which has four pacemen who have not had a look-in the Test series so far in Rao Iftikar, Abdul Rauf, Rana Naved-ul Hasan and Fazle Akbar.
Spinner Shoaib Malik, who did not play the first two Tests but featured in the one-dayers, has been drafted in the squad.
Bari said Gul could bowl in the second innings in Lahore only after taking pain-killing injections and he was not match-fit.
Squad: Inzamam-ul Haq (capt), Imran Farhat, Taufeeq Umar, Yasir Hameed, Yousuf Youhana, Asim Kamal, Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Shoaib Akhtar, Mohd Sami, Danish Kaneria, Imran Nazir, Misbah-ul Haq, Rao Iftikar, Abdul Rauf, Rana Naved-ul Hasan, Fazle Akbar. Bureau Report
Moin Khan, Shabbir Ahmed, Saqlain Mushtaq and all-rounder Abdul Razzaq, who did not play the Lahore Test, failed again to find a place in the squad which has four pacemen who have not had a look-in the Test series so far in Rao Iftikar, Abdul Rauf, Rana Naved-ul Hasan and Fazle Akbar.
Spinner Shoaib Malik, who did not play the first two Tests but featured in the one-dayers, has been drafted in the squad.
Bari said Gul could bowl in the second innings in Lahore only after taking pain-killing injections and he was not match-fit.
Squad: Inzamam-ul Haq (capt), Imran Farhat, Taufeeq Umar, Yasir Hameed, Yousuf Youhana, Asim Kamal, Kamran Akmal, Shoaib Malik, Shoaib Akhtar, Mohd Sami, Danish Kaneria, Imran Nazir, Misbah-ul Haq, Rao Iftikar, Abdul Rauf, Rana Naved-ul Hasan, Fazle Akbar. Bureau Report