The Pakistan Cricket Board affirmed details of the West Indies men’s cricket team’s visit to Pakistan for the two ICC World Test Title matches.
The West Indies cricket team will show up in Islamabad on 6 January, and after playing a three-day match against Pakistan Shaheens from 10-12 January at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, they will take on Pakistan in back-to-back Tests in Multan. The main Test will be played from 17-21 January, while the second Test will be held from 25-29 January.
This will be the West Indies’ first Test tour of Pakistan in 19 years, when they played three Tests in November 2006, while their last away Test series against Pakistan was in the UAE in October 2016. However, the West Indies have thrice visited Pakistan since April 2018—once for the ODI series (June 2022) and twice for the T20I series (April 2018 and December 2021).
The batter Amir Jangoo has procured a maiden call-up to the West Indies Test squad for the two-match series against Pakistan. Meanwhile, left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie gets back aside, having missed the two-match series against Bangladesh at home the month before.
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Motie will be driving West Indies’ spin-bowling contingent, which additionally has Kevin Sinclair and Jomel Warrican.
Jangoo and Motie replace the fast-bowling duo of Shamar Joseph and Alzarri Joseph. While Shamar is experiencing shin braces that constrained him to miss the ODI series against Bangladesh recently, Alzarri is unavailable “because of different engagements,” as indicated by Cricket West Indies (CWI).
Jangoo was compensated for his consistent performances in the domestic four-day contest in 2023-24, when he scored 500 runs in five matches at an average of 63.50, with two centuries and a fifty, to be Trinidad and Tobago’s most significant run-getter. Jangoo also recently smashed a century on his ODI debut against Bangladesh to assist the West Indies in achieving their third-most noteworthy chase in the format.