Pakistan team departs for South Africa, Zimbabwe tours
The Pakistan cricket team departed for the tours of South Africa and Zimbabwe in a chartered plane on Friday morning.
The development was confirmed by the Pakistan Cricket Board on their official Twitter account.
🇵🇰 🛫🇿🇦#SAvPAK #HarHaalMainCricket #BackTheBoysInGreen pic.twitter.com/lkB4LuaQcp
— Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) March 26, 2021
The Men-in-Green will first face Proteas in ODI and T20I series after which they will travel to Zimbabwe where they will participate in T20I and Test series.
The team will be
led by star batsman Babar Azam whereas wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan
will be the vice-captain in Tests and all-rounder Shadab Khan will be the deputy
in ODIs and T20Is.
Earlier on
Thursday, all 35 members of the contingent tested negative for coronavirus in
the final round of testing before their departure for the tours.
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