Pakistan v West Indies ODI Series, 2008/09

Pakistan will rely heavily on pace when they take on the West Indies in an ODI series later this month in Abu Dhabi. The interim selection committee, headed by former fast bowler Saleem Jaffar, named a 15-man squad with five fast bowlers for the three-match engagement starting November 12


Wed 12


14:00 local, 10:00 GMT 1st ODI - Pakistan v West Indies
Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi

Fri 14
14:00 local, 10:00 GMT 2nd ODI - Pakistan v West Indies
Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi

Sun 16
14:00 local, 10:00 GMT 3rd ODI - Pakistan v West Indies
Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi

Shoaib Malik (capt), Misbah-ul-Haq (vice-capt), Salman Butt, Nasir Jamshed, Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal (wk), Shoaib Akhtar, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul, Rao Iftikhar Anjum, Fawad Alam, Abdur Rauf, Saeed Ajmal.

Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Sohail Tanvir, Rao Iftikhar Anjum and Abdur Rauf make up the pace options and inevitably, all eyes will be on the first name. Shoaib returned to the national team in the T20 Canada in August, the first time this year he had played for Pakistan after a string of disciplinary scrapes kept him out.