Pakistan Cricket Board has applied for increasing the deadline for announcement of 30 men preliminary squad from ICC and ICC had extended the date announcement of Squad. Pakistan team is in New Zealand and they will start their series with T-20 matches.

There will be three T-20 matches between both countries. So far ODI team of Pakistan team for NZ tour is not announced. It is hopped that it will be announce together with world cup 30 men squad. The team selected for NZ tour didn’t include the names of Kamran Akmal and Shoaib Malik in it.

Both played and performed well in domestic cricket and the decision was quite strange from PCB. Both players protested against the decision. PCB has asked both players to submit their Assets details to PCB before 30th December. They will have to submit all assets and bank accounts detail to PCB for considering them in selection.

There were doubts that may be it was ICC’s instruction not to include these players in squad. Now there is a chance for both players to consider for selection. Kamran was cleared by ICC from investigation against him for some world cup T-20 matches. He was informed by letter that he is clear for selection.

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