10:00 Local Time, 21:00 GMT, 02:30 IST: Hello and welcome to the ODI series between New Zealand and Pakistan. A large section of the cricketing fraternity is celebrating the jambooree called IPL. But then two international teams albeit depleted a little due to different reasons are going head to head after a gruelling T20I series which the hosts easily won 4-1. Pakistan barring the third game never arrived. They were listless with the bat and the ball in most of the games. But the ODI squad has more experience. Babar and Rizwan are back after missing out from the T20Is. They will have a point or two to prove as this format suits their style of play. But NZ wickets can be like their rain, unpredictable!
Squads:
Pakistan Squad: Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan(w/c), Abdullah Shafique, Salman Agha, Tayyab Tahir, Khushdil Shah, Faheem Ashraf, Irfan Khan, Abrar Ahmed, Naseem Shah, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Akif Javed, Mohammad Ali, Sufiyan Muqeem
New Zealand Squad: Will Young, Henry Nicholls, Mark Chapman, Daryl Mitchell, Mitchell Hay(w), Michael Bracewell(c), Nick Kelly, Muhammad Abbas, Nathan Smith, William ORourke, Ben Sears, Jacob Duffy, Adithya Ashok