Pakistan cricket team formally begins their South African tour with effect from 1st February till 5th at Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg. Pakistan is visiting South Africa after 2007-08 when they lost 1-2 to the hosts.
Pakistan will play a three test matches series, two T20Is and five ODIs during their stay in the South Africa. Beside having played with the South African Invitation XI at East London from 25-28 January, Pakistan will come play another match with the South African Invitation XI at Kimberley.
South African have had a real good winning series against New Zealand and had consolidated their no.1 ranking.
Pakistan has not played any test match for the last six months and may find them at an odd when playing their first test at Johannesburg starting Friday tomorrow.
Pakistan's openers Jamshed, Asad Shafiq and Azhar are having their first exposure to the South African grounds and are likely to take time to get adjusted to the new environment.
As for South African captain Smith, the match Friday is going to be his 100th Test as captain (99 for his country and one for the World XI).
The opposing squads for the Test Match at Johannesburg are as under:
Pakistan: (probable) 1 Mohammed Hafeez, 2 Nasir Jamshed, 3 Azhar Ali, 4 Younis Khan, 5 Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), 6 Asad Shafiq, 7 Sarfraz Ahmed (wk), 8 Umar Gul, 9 Saeed Ajmal, 10 Junaid Khan, 11 Mohammed Irfan/Tanvir Ahmed
South Africa: (probable) 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Alviro Petersen, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 AB de Villiers (wk), 6 Faf du Plessis, 7 Dean Elgar, 8 Vernon Philander, 9 Robin Peterson, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Morne Morkel
The last time South Africa played a Test at the Wanderers in November 2011, they lost to Australia. Let us watch and see how does the hosts fare this time at the Wanderers Stadium.
The Test match is scheduled from 1-5 February, starting daily at 10:30 local time (08:30 GMT) and 13:30 Pakistan Standard Time at the Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.
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