Just-in: 20 players, 11 officials to travel to Manchester tomorrow

Lahore: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced that 20 players and 11 officials will travel to England on Sunday. ARY Sports reported.

Pacer Musa Khan and Wicket-keeper batsman Rohail Nazir to also depart with the side, left-arm spinner Zafar Gohar will join from England to assist the side in pre-series preparations.

Cliffe Deacon and Waqar Younis will join the side directly from South Africa and Australia, respectively, while Shoaib Malik is expected to travel around 24 July.

The team will travel on a chartered flight to Manchester on Sunday morning for a three-Test and three T20I series to be played in August and September.

All 18 players and 11 player support personnel, who had tested negative for Covid-19 in the first round of tests on Monday, have again returned negative in Thursday’s retests. Five reserve players have also returned negative.

Players to travel to England: 

Azhar Ali (captain), Babar Azam (vice-captain), Abid Ali, Asad Shafiq, Faheem Ashraf, Fawad Alam, Iftikhar Ahmad, Imad Wasim, Imam-ul-Haq, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Abbas, Musa Khan, Naseem Shah, Rohail Nazir, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood, Sohail Khan, Usman Shinwari, and Yasir Shah.

Support staff: 

Mansoor Rana (manager), Misbah-ul-Haq (head coach), Younis Khan (batting coach), Mushtaq Ahmed (spin bowling coach), Shahid Aslam (assistant coach), Abdul Majeed (fielding coach), Talha Butt (team analyst), Yasir Malik (strength and conditioning coach), Dr Sohail Saleem (team doctor), Lt Col (retd) Usman Riffat (security manager) and Raza Kitchlew (media and digital content manager).

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