Pakistan have been dealt a significant blow as their star wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan has been ruled out for the remainder of the continuing T20I series in opposition to New Zealand with a suspected hamstring harm.
Notably, Rizwan shouldn’t be the one participant who will miss the remaining two video games of the series. Though it has not been specified, it’s understood that batting allrounder Mohammad Irfan Khan has additionally picked up a hamstring niggle and subsequently will accompany Rizwan to the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Lahore for rehabilitation.
“PCB Medical Panel yesterday received Radiology reports of Mohammad Rizwan and Mohammad Irfan Khan. After reviewing the reports and in consultation with the Pakistan team management, it has been decided to rest the two players from Thursday’s and Saturday’s T20Is against New Zealand,” a press launch issued by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) learn.
These two gamers will be a part of Azam Khan on the NCA. Azam was ruled out of the series after struggling a grade one tear in his proper calf muscle earlier than the beginning of the primary T20I IN Rawalpindi.
Rizwan will probably be an enormous miss behind the stumps and in entrance of it. He had scored an unbeaten 45-run knock off simply 34 balls to take Pakistan dwelling within the low-scoring second T20I.
The wicketkeeper-batter was batting on 22 off 21 balls when he felt some discomfort and requested for medical consideration within the thirteenth over of the third T20I on the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Sunday (April 21).
The therapy on the sphere could not alleviate his drawback and subsequently he was compelled to stroll out of the sphere of play.
Though Pakistan have two wicketkeeping choices of their squad within the kind of Usman Khan and Haseebullah, they’re quick on expertise and it might value them dearly. Significantly, Pakistan haven’t named a substitute for both Irfan or Rizwan.
Both groups will likely be taking over one another within the fourth T20I on the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore on Thursday (April 25) with the series on the road.Â
Pakistan squad:
Babar Azam (c), Saim Ayub, Haseebullah, Usman Khan (wk), Iftikhar Ahmed, Shadab Khan, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, Abbas Afridi, Abrar Ahmed, Mohammad Amir, Fakhar Zaman, Imad Wasim, Usama Mir, Zaman Khan
New Zealand squad:
Tim Seifert (wk), Tim Robinson, Dean Foxcroft, Mark Chapman, James Neesham, Michael Bracewell (c), Cole McConchie, Zakary Foulkes, Ish Sodhi, Jacob Duffy, William ORourke, Ben Sears, Ben Lister, Josh Clarkson, Tom Blundell
