LAHORE: In a noteworthy key movement, the selectors are considering the choice to drop veteran batsman Younis Khan from national ODI squad while asking Pakistan chief Misbah-ul-Haq to bat at pivotal number three position.
The squad for the Australia arrangement in the UAE is to be declared one week from now. The arrangement begins with the one-off T20 in Dubai on Oct 5.
The 36-year-old Younis, who has been kept to Test cricket since ahead of schedule a year ago, was incorporated in the ODI party for the last arrangement against Sri Lanka where he offered just in the first round of the three-match elastic, scoring three runs in that diversion at Hambantota.
The right-gave batsman in a crisis needed to return home owing to the death of his nephew.
Presently the selectors have practically chosen to chop out the 254-ODI veteran from the diversion's shorter form, refering to his poor run of structure in One-day Internationals.
Before the Hambantota ODI, Younis played his last ODI in March 2013 against South Africa at Benoni, making 29. It is intriguing to review that Younis enlisted his last 50 or more thump in Odis against India at Chennai back in December 2012.
With a stack of 7,017 ODI runs (averaging 31.75) offering six centuries and 48 half-hundreds of years shockingly, Younis remains the most accomplished batsman in the present parcel of Pakistan players. In any case the unordinary dunk in ODI manifestation of the warhorse — bringing about a 17-month nonappearance of the warhorse from ODI scene — has maybe urged the selectors to search for different choices as the exceptionally vital 2015 World Cup nears.
However just as interestingly, sources said, the selectors have not succeeded in persuading Misbah to bat at imperative No.3 spot.
"For his moderate yet capable batting style, Misbah can deliver a finer show at one-down position, which numerous accept is urgent in any organization yet Misbah is not yet persuaded," sources told Dawn.
"Misbah accepts he is now under some weight as his execution in the last arrangement against Sri Lanka was languid, so a real change in the batting request at this minute, and that too against Australia who are one of the world's best groups, may put him under included weight, which he can't manage the cost of until the World Cup," sources near Misbah said.
Despite the fact that 40-year-old Misbah brags a sound looking batting normal of 43.75 in 149 Odis in which he amassed 4,594 runs, the commander's drop in his ODI structure in the as of late closed Odis in Sri Lanka has brought concerns up in Pakistan cricket loops as a gigantic arrangement against Australia anticipates Misbah and organization.
Furthermore considerably all the more significantly when the World Cup begins in February the captain will be closer to 41, raising questions about his capacity to bat in generally intense batting conditions in Australia and New Zealand.
Then, sources additionally said that set up of suspended off-spinner Saeed Ajmal, left-arm spinner Zulfiqar Babar could be given a chance in the two-Test arrangement against Australia nearby off-spinner Hafeez.
Yasir Shah or Raza Hasan are two other most loved spinners to get put in the ODI group.
In the first exchange which was held in Lahore a day or two ago, the selectors settled 20 names for both Test and ODI squads however the last groups for the Tests, three Odis and one-off T20 against the Aussies will be reported in Karachi one week from
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