Tour of South Africa 2006-07            Captain: Inzamamul Haq
	54th Test tour Fourth Test-playing tour of South Africa by Pakistan                (January 2007)	Bowling coach Waqar Younis resigned just before the start of the South African tour because of the the Pakistan Cricket Board's (PCB) decision to retain him only for the Test series against South Africa and not the five ODIs.	Other Pakistan Tours   Previous tour England 2006   Next tour India 2007-08
	Members of the Test tour party     Asim Kamal Danish Kaneria Faisal Iqbal Imran Farqat Inzamamul Haq Kamran Akmal Mohammad Asif Mohammad Hafeez Mohammad Sami Mohammad Yousuf Naved-ul-Hasan Shahid Nazir Shoaib Malik Umar Gul Yasir Hameed Younis Khan Zulqarnain Haider	Asim Kamal Hyd 30 LHB ODI   Danish Kaneria K 26 LBG ODI   Faisal Iqbal K 25 RHB ODI   Imran Farhat L 24 LHB opener ODI   Inzamamul Haq Mu 36 RHB   captain ODI   Kamran Akmal L 25 WK     Mohammad Asif Sia 24 RF ODI   Mohammad Hafeez Sg 26 RHB opener ODI   Mohammad Sami K 25 RFM     Mohammad Yousuf L 32 RHB ODI   Naved-ul-Hasan Sia 28 RFM     Shahid Nazir Guj 29 RFM ODI   Shoaib Malik Sia 24 RHB   OB ODI   Umar Gul Pw 24 RFM ODI   Yasir Hameed Pw 28 RHB     Younis Khan Pw 29 RHB        vice-captain             Zulqarnain Haider L 20 WK                   ODI     ODI     ODI     ODI	Average age of  team at time of first Test match     ( 11 January 2007) :             yrs   2 months                     ODI  Part of the squad for
	Test Appearances made before the tour	Inzamamul Haq 116, Mohammad Yousuf 73, Younis Khan 50, Danish Kaneria 43, Shoaib Akhtar 42, Kamran Akmal 30, Mohammad Sami 28, Imran Farhat 24, Shoaib Malik 18, Faisal Iqbal 17, Yasir Hameed 17, Umar Gul 14, Shahid Nazir 13, Asim Kamal 12, Naved-ul-Hasan 8, Mohammad Hafeez 7, Mohammad Asif 6, Zulqarnain Haider 0.
	Team Officials	Talat Ali Malik Tour manager Bob Woolmer Coach Mushtaq Ahmed Assistant coach   Assistant coach Darryn Lifson Physiotherapist Murray Stevenson Physical Trainer   Media Manager   Security manager
	Selectors	Selection by : Iqbal Qasim (acting chairman) and Ehteshamuddin. Absent    Wasim Bari (chairman of selectors) in Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj;                Bob Woolmer in Cape Town  celebrating Christmas with family.
	Selection	Unavailable :   Abdur Razzaq (calf injury)   Tour Party Announced : 29 December 2006.   Reserves : Bazid Khan,  Mohammad Khalil.   Training Camp  in Qaddafi Stadium, Lahore26 - 30 December.    Not selected :   Names of 25 probables announced 18 December from whom Shoaib Akhtar (lack of match fitness), Shabbir Ahmed, Abdur Rehman, Imran Nazir, Salman Butt, Rao Iftikhar, Shahid Afridi and Yasir Arafat were not selected.   Promising batsman Bazid Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Hasan Raza and medium-pacer Abdur Rauf were not included in the camp.
	Travel	The team departed from Quaid-e-Azam Airport, Karachi, for Johannesburg on night of 2 January 2007. Coach Bob Woolmer was staying at his home in Cape Town and joined the team on arrival.
	On-tour selection
	Reinforcements	Shoaib Akhtarwas not picked in the original 17-man squad, but an ankle injury to Umar Gul led to  his recall for the 2nd Test. After picking up four for 36 from 11 overs, he pulled a hamstring and was out of the tour. He and Gul both went home so Shabbir Ahmed was called up but he suffered a knee injury in preparation and went only in time for the one-day series. Then he suffered a groin injury and Azhar Mahmood came in for him Abdul Razzaq, their allrounder, went out of the entire Test series with a calf injury. Shoaib Malik was sidelined with an ankle injury and Mohammad Yousuf missed the first Test, to be with his wife for the birth of their child after complications with the pregnancy.
	Fixtures/Results	† Kimberley The Rest of South Africa Drawn CENTURION ( Pretoria) SOUTH AFRICA  First Test LOST 7 w PORT ELIZABETH SOUTH AFRICA  Second Test WON 5 w CAPE TOWN SOUTH AFRICA  Third Test LOST 5w †  Johannesburg South Africa (20/20) Lost 10 w § Centurion South Africa  (1st ODI) Lost 164 r § Durban South Africa  (2nd ODI) Won 141 r § Port Elizabeth South Africa  (3rd ODI) No result § Cape Town South Africa  (4th ODI) Lost 10 w § Johannesburg South Africa  (5th ODI) Won 9 w	† not first-class     §  one-day international
	Test appearances on tour	3  -   Danish Kaneria, Imran Farhat, Inzamamul Haq, Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Hafeez, Yasir Hameed, Younis Khan. 2  -   Mohammad Sami, Mohammad Yousuf, Shahid Nazir 1  -   Faisal Iqbal, Naved-ul-Hasan. Shoaib Akhtar 0  -  Asim Kamal, Shoaib Malik, Umar Gul, Zulqarnain Haider.
	Highlights	•
	Tour Summary	P W L D Test Matches 3 1 2 0 Other f-c matches 0 - - - Minor matches 1 0 0 1 One-day internationals 5 1 3 1 20/20 internationals 1 0 1 0 All Matches
	Return to Pakistan	Arrived back in Lahore on 16 February 2007. Mohammad Asif left South Africa directly for England to seek treatment to his painful elbow
	Finances
	Written accounts of the tour

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