On Saturday, December 14, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced the Pakistan national cricket team's XI for the third and final T20I match against the South Africa national cricket team just hours before the match.
The Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg is set to host the T20I rubber final between the Pakistan national cricket team and the South Africa national cricket team.
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Pakistan announces playing XI for the third T20I
The PCB selection committee has made a major decision and dropped 29-year-old Usman Khan from the playing XI. Osman was unable to replicate his Premier League heroics at international level and failed miserably despite getting consistent opportunities.
In the first two T20Is against the Proteas, he looked poor and scored scores of 9 and 3. Overall, he played 18 T20I matches and scored 232 runs at an average of 15.46 and a strike rate of 122.75, with only one half-century.
Usman Khan was replaced by white-ball vice-captain Salman Agha in the starting XI for the third match. Notably, Agha, despite being the vice-captain, was dropped from the squad after the Zimbabwe match series Because he was struggling so much.
Speaking of the rest of the players, the new duo of Mohamed Radwan and Saim Ayoub will continue to open up the side and Babar Azam He will bat at No. 3.
The middle responsibility will fall on the shoulders of Salman Agha, Tayyab Tahir and Irrfan Khan all-rounder. Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, and Abbas Faridi The trio will form the pace with Abrar Ahmed As the only spinner Jehandad Khan retained his place in the side.
This selection to the playing XI for the third T20I means that Omair Ben Youssef and Mohamed Hasnain will not get a chance to play for Pakistan in the series.
Pakistan Playing XI for 3rd T20I:
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Pakistan lost the T20I series to South Africa
The Men In Green have already lost the three-match series to the Proteas after their poor performances in the first two matches. They lost the first match by 11 runs and the second match by 7 wickets.
Speaking after the series defeat, skipper Mohammad Rizwan said that they will give their best in the last T20I because they love cricket.
“(Ali Reza) played very well. Saim Ayoub was exceptional. After 10 overs, we lost our way, and the middle order is in the learning process. We have an inexperienced team. We were looking at more than 220 players, but 4 players bowled well,” he said. Really good.”
“(On Irfan) He is one of the players we look up to as a power batsman and we hope he continues to do so. We have one more game and we still love our cricket and are looking forward to playing tomorrow,” he said.
