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Babar And Rizwan Drop From The Upcoming New Zealand Series

Updated - 4-MAR-2025 11:29 IST

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The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has taken the major decision in the upcoming New Zealand Series. PCB has dropped the Pakistan captain Mohammad Rizwan and Pakistan best Batsmen Babar Azam has dropped from the upcoming New Zealand tour in the T20I series. 

This decision was taken after Pakistan were eliminated in the group stage in the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 in Pakistan. They played 3 matches with 2 losses and 1 no result. This disappointing performance was given by the Pakistan team.

Salman Agha Captain And Shadab Khan Vice Captain For New Zealand Series

Salman Agha became the new captain for the New Zealand series. He led the Pakistan team against Zimbabwe series and won that series by 2-1 and Spinner Shadab Khan became vice captain for this series. 

Babar, Rizwan And Naseem Out From T20I, Haris And Shaheen Out From ODI

Batmen Babar Azam, captain and wicket keeper batsman Mohmaad Rizwan and fast bowlers Nassen Shah out of the T20I series against New Zealand, Otherside fast medium bowlers Haris Rauf and Shaheen Shah Afridi out of the ODI series. 

Pakistan Tour Of New Zealand Fixture

Date

Format

Venue

16 March

1st T20I

Christchurch

18 March

2nd T20I

Dunedin

21 March

3rd T20I

Auckland

23 March

4th T20I

Mount Maunganui

26 March

5th T20I

Wellington

29 March

1st ODI

Napier

2 April

2nd ODI

Hamilton

5 April

3rd ODI

Mount Maunganui

Pakistan Squad For New Zealand Series  

Pakistan ODI Squad 

Mohamad rizwan(Captain), Salman Agha, Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Akif Javed, Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf, Imam-ul-Haq, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Wasim Jnr, Irfan Niazi, Naseem Shah, Sufiyan Muqeem, and Tayyab Tahir.

Pakistan T20 Squad 

Hassan Nawaz, Omair yousuf, Mohammad Haris, Abdul Samad, Salman Ali Agha(Captain), Irfan Niazi, Khushdil Shah, Shadab Khan(VC), Abba Afridi, Jahandad Khan, Mohammad Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf, Sufiyaan Muqeem, Abrar Ahmed, and Usman Khan.