Asia Cup 2023 / Big change in Asia Cup team squad, this reserve player got entry in the team

Asia Cup 2023: Asia Cup 2023 is to be played in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. This tournament will start from 30 August. Where the match will be played between six teams. Before the start of the Asia Cup, a team has made a big change in its squad. Due to which a player sitting in the reserve has got a chance in the main team. This player was earlier being taken for the tournament as a reserve, but now the board has suddenly changed its decision and given that player a chance in the main team. We are talking about Pakistan cricket team.

This player got a chance

Pakistan has included an additional player in their Asia Cup 2023 squad. Middle-order batsman Saud Shakeel has been included in Pakistan's Asia Cup squad and Tayyab Tahir has been kept as a traveling reserve. Shakeel was not part of the initial 17-member squad and was the 18th member of the squad for the ongoing ODI series against Afghanistan. Tahir, who was initially in the squad, did not play a single match in the three-match ODI series against Afghanistan. He travels with the team as a reserve player during the Asia Cup

Shakeel, who returned to the ODI squad for the Afghanistan series, played just one match and scored 9 runs. Pakistan will play its first match in the Asia Cup against Nepal on August 30 in Multan. The team will reach Multan on August 27, with Babar Azam, Imam-ul-Haq and Naseem Shah joining the team on Monday evening. Apart from this, Pakistan's biggest match in Asia Cup will be played against India on 02 September.

Team for Asia Cup

Pakistan Squad: Babar Azam (Captain), Abdullah Shafiq, Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Salman Ali Agha, Iftikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Haris, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Usama Mir, Faheem Ashraf, Haris Rauf, Mohammad Wasim Junior, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi, Saud Shakeel