The training match will be held on December 22 and 23© Twitter
The Pakistan team is scheduled to play a two-day practice match against Victoria XI before the Boxing Day Test against Australia on December 22-23. Australia’s all-round performance sank Pakistan as the Asian giants ended up with a massive 360-run defeat. Originally, this game was not part of the tour, but Pakistan made a request to arrange the game due to concerns about the lack of practice according to ESPNcricinfo. This game will not be a four-day Test against the Prime Minister’s XI and the Pakistan team will get the opportunity to try out more than their 11 players as it is not a first-class match.
“Which [the Victoria tour game] It was something extra that we added to the schedule because it wasn’t there earlier. We wanted to have more training instead of just one training game. “This was a top-class venue, so we couldn’t give all the bowlers the opportunity to feel,” said Pakistan coach Mohammad Hafeez as quoted by ESPNcricinfo.
“That’s why we wanted to conduct this practice game, so that more players can get familiar with the match scenario; we felt that would work well. We will definitely plan accordingly. All players should use these two days to familiarize themselves more,” Hafeez added. “Situations and circumstances.”
Hafeez also revealed that they had asked Cricket Australia to prepare a pitch-like surface for the Test match.
“The conditions we are getting fall within the ambit of Cricket Australia. We have asked for similar conditions for the Test match so that our players can benefit from these conditions. This game was not part of the tour but I wanted our players to have a match-style scenario and we are grateful to CA for accepting it,” Hafeez said. We requested and provided these facilities. “We will try to learn from this in the most effective way possible.”
The second test match will be played on December 26 in Melbourne.
Australia squad: Pat Cummins (c), Scott Bolland, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitch Marsh, Steve Smith, Mitch Starc, David Warner.
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