Tour of Sri Lanka 2014          Captain: Misbah-ul-Haq

66th Test tour

(August 2014)

Eighth Test-playing tour of Sri Lanka by Pakistan

    (previous tour 2012)    

Other Pakistan Tours

Previous tour

to Zimbabwe 2013-14

Also: v South Africa in UAE and

v Sri Lanka in UAE 2013-14 (home series played abroad)

Next tour

to Bangladesh 2014-15

Also v Australia in UAE and v New Zealand in UAE 2014-15 (home series played abroad)

Next tour of Sri Lanka

None scheduled

Members of the Test tour party (15)

Opening batsmen:Ahmed Shehzad, Khurram Manzoor, Shan Masood

Middle-order batsmen:Azhar Ali, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq, Asad Shafiq, Umar Akmal

Wicket-keeper: Sarfraz Ahmed

Spin bowlers: Saeed Ajmal, Abdur Rehman.

Fast bowlers:  Junaid Khan Mohammad Talha, Rahat Ali, Wahab Riaz

⋄ Central contracts

Category A: Misbah-ul-Haq, Mohammad Hafeez, Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi, Junaid Khan.       

Category B: Younis Khan, Ahmad Shahzad, Umar Akmal, Umar Gul.

Category C: Asad Shafiq, Azhar Ali, Adnan Akmal, Khurram Manzoor, Nasir Jamshed, Abdul Rehman.    

Category D: Sohaib Maqsood, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Bilawal Bhatti, Sharjeel Khan, Zulfiqar Babar, Fawad Alam, Ehsan Adil, Mohammad Irfan, Wahab Riaz, Raza Hasan, Umar Amin, Harris Sohail, Rahat Ali, Shaan Masood, Mohammad Talha, Anwar Ali

Average age of  team at time of first Test match 

(6 August 2014))

          29 yrs   4 months

Representation for first-class teams

HB   Habib Bank

K     Karachi Whites or Blues

KRL - Khan Research Laboratories

NB  National Bank of Pakistan

PIA - Pakistan International Airlines

PQA Port Qasim Authority

SNG  Sui Northern Gas Pipelines

WAP  Water & Power Development

ZTB - Zarai Taraqiati Bank

ODI  Member of the squad for the 3 one-day internationals.

Test Appearances made before the tour

Younis Khan 89,   Misbahul Haq 46,  Saeed Ajmal 33,  Azhar Ali 32,  Asad Shafiq 26,  Abdur Rehman 20,  Junaid Khan 16,  Umar Akmal 16,  Khurram Manzoor 14,  Wahab Riaz 7,  Rahat Ali 6,  Sarfraz Ahmed 6,  Ahmed Shaehzad 3,  Mohammad Talha 2,  Shaan Masood 2

Tour Officials

Selectors

(National Selection Committee)

Moin Khan (chief selector),  Ijaz Ahmed, Shoaib Mohammad, Salim Yousuf, Wajahatullah Wasti and Mohammad Akram

Selection

Central contracts (⋄) were decided by Moin Khan, Mohammad Akram and Zakir Khan after evaluating players during a month-long training camp in Lahore. 

Unavailable   Mohammad Irfan (fitness),  Umar Gul (knee)

Test Tour Party Announced :  9 July 2014

Not selected :   Adnan Akmal (⋄C),  Bilawal Bhatti  (⋄D),  Mohammad Hafeez (⋄ A) (for Tests)

Withdrawal :  none.

Time between selection and one-day squad’s departure from Pakistan

  24 days

(9 July to 2 August)

Travel

KarachiQ  Colombo

There was a nine-day training camp up until the end of July 2014.

The Pakistan team left by bus for Jinnah International Airport Karachi on Saturday 2 August without skipper Misbah-ul-Haq who was still at a press conference in their Karachi hotel.  

The team landed at Bandaranaike International Colombo Airport, Colombo, on the same day, and travelled on the 80 miles to Galle.

Time spent in Sri Lanka

   29 days

(2 August -31 August)

On-tour selection

Waqar Younis (coach),  Misbah-ul-Haq (captain),  and  Younis Khan (vice-captain).

Reinforcements

Fixtures/Results

SLC had announced the dates and venues for Pakistan tour on 16 May 2014

† not first-class

§  one-day international

Time spent in Sri Lanka before First Test: 

4 days

(2 August - 6 August)

Test appearances on tour

2  -   

1  -    

Match appearances

Highlights

•   Pakistan

Tour Summary

Return to Pakistan

Harare  Q  London   

The team left Colombo

Time away from Pakistan

   x days  

(2 August to  31 August)

Finances

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Account of the tour

Postscript