1st Test: Pakistan vs West Indies at Lahore
This match-up shapes as an interesting one, West Indies have been in good form of late in the one-day form of the game with impressive wins but eventually went down to Australia in the Champions Trophy Grand Final. Pakistan have been rocked by a drugs scandal and were dogged by poor form in the Champions Trophy.
Can West Indies transfer their one-day form to the test arena or will Pakistan regroup and pull off a win?
Whatever the result, it should be a close one. Get set for a hard fought game.
West Indies (probable): 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Daren Ganga, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 5 Brian Lara (capt), 6 Dwayne Bravo, 7 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 8 Dave Mohammad, 9 Fidel Edwards, 10 Corey Colleymore, 11 Jerome Taylor
Pakistan (probable): 1 Imran Farhat, 2 Mohammad Hafeez, 3 Younis Khan, 4 Mohammad Yousuf, 5 Inzamam-ul-Haq (capt), 6 Kamran Akmal (wk), 7Shoaib Malik, 8 Abdul Razzaq, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Danish Kaneria, 11 Shahid Nazir
Umpires: Roshan Mahanama and Asoka de Silva
3rd Umpire: Simon Taufel
Weather:
(All Temperatures in Degrees Celcius)
Friday: Cloudy, 29
Saturday: Partly Cloudy, 34
Sunday: Partly Cloudy, 31
Monday: Cloudy, 32
Tuesday: Partly Cloudly, 32
Game starts at 12:30 pm AWST (10am local time, 4:30am GMT)
This match-up shapes as an interesting one, West Indies have been in good form of late in the one-day form of the game with impressive wins but eventually went down to Australia in the Champions Trophy Grand Final. Pakistan have been rocked by a drugs scandal and were dogged by poor form in the Champions Trophy.
Can West Indies transfer their one-day form to the test arena or will Pakistan regroup and pull off a win?
Whatever the result, it should be a close one. Get set for a hard fought game.
West Indies (probable): 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Daren Ganga, 3 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 4 Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 5 Brian Lara (capt), 6 Dwayne Bravo, 7 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 8 Dave Mohammad, 9 Fidel Edwards, 10 Corey Colleymore, 11 Jerome Taylor
Pakistan (probable): 1 Imran Farhat, 2 Mohammad Hafeez, 3 Younis Khan, 4 Mohammad Yousuf, 5 Inzamam-ul-Haq (capt), 6 Kamran Akmal (wk), 7Shoaib Malik, 8 Abdul Razzaq, 9 Umar Gul, 10 Danish Kaneria, 11 Shahid Nazir
Umpires: Roshan Mahanama and Asoka de Silva
3rd Umpire: Simon Taufel
Weather:
(All Temperatures in Degrees Celcius)
Friday: Cloudy, 29
Saturday: Partly Cloudy, 34
Sunday: Partly Cloudy, 31
Monday: Cloudy, 32
Tuesday: Partly Cloudly, 32
Game starts at 12:30 pm AWST (10am local time, 4:30am GMT)