Overview

• The trio will be absent from Pakistan’s T20 line-up for tours of the West Indies in July and Bangladesh in August.
• Head coach Mike Hesson and the selection panel have advised the seniors to concentrate on the ICC World Test Championship and forthcoming ODI series.
• Selectors aim to provide extended opportunities to younger T20 players as part of long-term squad building for the ICC World T20 Cup next year.
• Names for the revised T20 squad are due next week from the panel led by Aaqib Javed, Aleem Dar, Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq.
• Pakistan will face three T20Is and three ODIs in the West Indies from late July before a planned three-match T20 series in Bangladesh in August.