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Test Cricket Tours - Pakistan to New Zealand 2009-10

 

 

Tour of New Zealand & Australia 2009-10

Captain: Mohammad Yousuf

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Test-playing tour of New Zealand by Pakistan     

 

Test-playing tour of New Zealand by Pakistan    

 

(October 2009 -

              January 2010)

 

The New Zealand series was originally scheduled to be held in Pakistan but relocated after the Kiwis refused to tour owing to the security fears.   The ODI and 20/20 series was shifted to the United Arab Emirates and both teams would then fly to New Zealand for three Tests.

Younis Khan resigned the Pakistan captaincy after claims (which he strongly denied) were made that his side had deliberately underperformed in the Champions Trophy. The PCB rejected his resignation and he remained captain in the UAE but It was heard that Younis had lost control of the side after quarrels with Afridi, Shoaib Malik and other senior players.  He then requested a rest from cricket so Mohammad Yousuf was called upon to lead the side in New Zealand and retained the lead for Australia, while Younis gradually returned to Quaid-e-Azam matches. 

 

 

Other Pakistan Tours

 

 

Previous tour

Sri Lanka 2009

 

Next tour

Australia 2010

 (played in England)

 

 

 

Members of the Test tour party

 

 

Abdur Rauf

L

30

RFM

ODI

 

Danish Kaneria

K

28

LBG

ODI

 

Faisal Iqbal

K

27

RHB

ODI

 

Fawad Alam

K

24

LHB

ODI

 

Imran Farhat

L

27

LHB  opener

ODI

 

Kamran Akmal

L

27

WK

ODI

 

Khurrum Manzoor

K

23

RHB opener

ODI

 

Misbah ul Haq

Sg

35

RHB

ODI

 

Mohammad Aamir

Rw

17

LF

 

 

Mohammad Asif

SK

26

RFM

ODI

 

Mohammad Yousuf

L

35

RHB    captain

 

 

Saeed Ajmal

Is

32

OB

ODI

 

Salman Butt

L

25

LHB  opener

 

 

¥  Sarfraz Ahmed

K

22

reserve WK

 

 

Shoaib Malik

Sk

27

RHB

ODI

 

Umar Akmal

L

19

RHB

ODI

 

Umar Gul

Pw

25

RFM

 

 

¥  Yasir Arafat

Rw

27

RFM

 

 

¥  Sarfraz and Yasir Arafat were not required on the Australian tour

Required only for the ODI and T20 series in Australia

 

 

 

ODI

 

Shahid Afridi

ODI

 

 

ODI

 

 

  

  

Average age of  team at time of first Test match

    (24 November 2009) : 

           yrs    months

 

 

 

Teams

 

Is  -  Islamabad

K   -  Karachi

L  -    Lahore

Pw  - Peshawar

Rw  -  Rawalpindi

Sg  -  Sargodha

Sk  -  Sialkot

 

 

 

 

 

 

ODI  Part of the squad for the ODI matches in Australia

 

 

 

Test Appearances made before the tour

 

 

Mohammad Yousuf 82, Danish Kaneria 54, Kamran Akmal 43, Mohammad Sami 33, Imran Farhat 27, Shoaib Malik 26, Faisal Iqbal 23, Salman Butt 22, Umar Gul 21, Misbah-ul-Haq 15, Mohammad Asif 11, Khurrum Manzoor 5, Mohammad Aamer 3, Saeed Ajmal 3, Yasir Arafat 3, Abdur Rauf 2, Fawad Alam 2, Umar Akmal 0, Sarfraz Ahmed 0.

 

 

 

 

Team Officials

 

Abdur Raqib

Tour manager

Asad Mustafa

Assistant manager

Intikhab Alam

Coach

Waqar Younis

Assistant coach (in Australia)

Aaqib Javed

Assistant coach

Faisal Hayat

Physiotherapist

David Dwyer

Physical fitness trainer

Mohammad Ahmed

Assistant manager

Talha Ijaz

Computer analyst

Mohammad Akhtar

Masseur

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selectors

 

Iqbal Qasim (Chief selector).  The panel as announced the previous July included Saleem Jaffer, Ijaz Ahmed, Azhar Khan, Mohammad Ilyas and two co-opted members, Asif Baloch and Farrukh Zaman.

Ijaz Butt was a strong influence on the composition of the touring sides for which he was criticised.

 

 

 

 

Selection

 

Unavailable:  Mohammad Asif was not available for the limited overs part of the tour as he would not be granted entry to UEA owing to his detention on drugs charges and being deported in June 2008. 

Younis Khan would surrender the captaincy to Shaid Afridi for the two ODIs and then resume as captain for the Tests in New Zealand.

 

Tour Party to New Zealand announced:  22 October 2009

Not selected :  Misbah-ul-Haq;   Sohail Tanvir  (he had a knee injury in any case).

 

The following were selected only as members of the ODI and 20/20 squad in UAE: 

Shahid Afridi, Khalid Latif, Abdul Razzaq, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Rao Iftikhar Anjum, Wahab Riaz, Sohail Tanvir

 

Withdrawal :  Younis Khan requested a break from international cricket and missed the New Zealand tour.

 

On 11 November Mohammad Yousuf was appointed captain for the New Zealand tour with Kamran Akmal as his deputy.  The door was left open for Younis Khan to resume the captaincy in Australia but he did not confirm his availability for Australia so he was left out of that series, too.

Yousuf asked the selectors to pick Misbah-ul-Haq and, although they initially refused, they sent him after the first Test in Dunedin. This brought the Test squad up to eighteen in number.

 

Tour Party to Australia announced :  8 December 2009

Shahid Afridi took over as captain for T20, as well as vice-captain for ODI matches, in Australia.

 

 

 

 

 

Travel

 

Pakistan left Lahore for Dubai early on Friday 30 October 2009.

PCB officials were unable to book rooms for the team in Abu Dhabi because leading hotels there were reserved for the inaugural Formula One race taking place in the city. The team stayed in Dubai for a couple of days before leaving for Abu Dhabi on 2 November for the ODI series opener.

 

They flew to New Zealand from their ODI series in Abu Dhabi on Sunday 15th November arriving in Wellington on Monday before heading to Queenstown on Tuesday.

 

The Pakistanis flew in to Melbourne on 17 December for the last leg of their tour.

 

 

 

 

On-tour selection

 

Intikhab Alam (coach), Aqib Javed (assistant coach), Waqar Younis (bowling coach), Mohammad Yousuf (captain)

 

 

 

 

Reinforcements

 

Mohammad Sami flew to Australia on Wednesday 23 December to reinforce the pace bowling attack.

 

 

 

 

Fixtures/Results

 

§ Abu Dhabi

New Zealand  (1st ODI)

 

§ Abu Dhabi

New Zealand  (2nd ODI)

 

§ Abu Dhabi

New Zealand  (3rd ODI)

 

  Dubai

New Zealand  (1st 20/20)

 

  Dubai

New Zealand  (2nd 20/20)

 

 

 

 

  Queenstown

New Zealand Invitation XI (3-day)

Drawn

DUNEDIN

NEW ZEALAND  First Test

LOST  32 r

WELLINGTON

NEW ZEALAND  Second Test

WON 141 r

NAPIER

NEW ZEALAND  Third Test

DRAWN

 

 

 

Hobart

Tasmania

Drawn

MELBOURNE

AUSTRALIA  First Test

 

SYDNEY

AUSTRALIA  Second Test

 

HOBART

AUSTRALIA  Third Test

 

§  Brisbane

Australia  (1st ODI)

 

§  Sydney

Australia  (2nd ODI)

 

§  Adelaide

Australia  (3rd ODI)

 

§  Perth

Australia  (4th ODI)

 

§  Perth

Australia  (5th ODI)

 

  Melbourne

Australia  (20/20)

 

 

 

 

 

† not first-class

 

 

§  one-day international

 

 

 

Test appearances on tour

 

v New Zealand

3  -  Imran Farhat,  Kamran Akmal, Mohammad Aamir,  Mohammad Asif,  Mohammad Yousuf, Umar Akmal,

2  -  Danish Kaneria,  Misbah ul Haq,  Salman Butt,  Shoaib Malik,  Umar Gul.

1  -  Faisal Iqbal, Fawad Alam,  Khurrum Manzoor, Saeed Ajmal.

0   -  Abdur Rauf,  Sarfraz Ahmed, Yasir Arafat.

v Australia

1  -  Abdur Rauf,  Faisal Iqbal, Imran Farhat,  Kamran Akmal,  Misbah ul Haq, Mohammad Aamir,  Mohammad Asif,  Mohammad Yousuf,  Saeed Ajmal, Salman Butt,  Shoaib Malik,  Umar Akmal.

 

 

 

 

Highlights

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tour Summary

 

 

P

W

L

D

T

Test Matches

6

 

 

 

 

Other f-c matches

 

 

 

 

 

Minor matches

 

 

 

 

 

One-day internationals

 

 

 

 

 

20/20 matches

 

 

 

 

 

All Matches

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Return to Pakistan

 

Sarfraz Ahmed and Yasir Arafat  were asked to return home after the New Zealand leg of the tour. Assistant manager Mohammad Ahmed was also called to return home on 16 December

 

 

 

 

 

Finances

 

 

 

 

 

 

Written accounts of the tour

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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