Pakistan -New Zealand Series Preview 2023

Pakistan's home series against New Zealand will be closely contested one with New Zealand going in to this series as slight favourites over a struggling Pakistani side. I am saying this because Pakistan recently lost an Afghanistan Twenty20 series in Sharjah and their morale will be down whereas New Zealand are coming fresh from their series win in all three formats against Sri Lanka so New Zealand's confidence will be sky high.

Having said that New Zealand will dearly miss the services of their star batsman Kane Williamson who is missing the tour due to injury. Whereas Pakistan are going at full strength with five key players Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, Fakhar Zaman, Shaheen Afridi and Haris Rauf returning to their squad.

Pakistan might lose the twenty20 series against New Zealand as the boys arent in form as can be seen in the Afghanistan series but they will give a tough fight to New Zealand in the ODI series. I am saying this because we have quite a brilliant ODI side,

Pakistan - Afghanistan Twenty20 Series Review 2023

 Afghanistan upset Pakistan 2-1 in the Twenty20 Series which was held in Sharjah. Pakistan were playing with a second string squad with five key team members missing and its no wonder that Afghanistan managed to beat Pakistan easily.

The five key members include Babar Azam, Muhammad Rizwan, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf and Fakhar Zaman. Pakistan clearly missed the experience and quality of these five players.

International cricket is no joke and every international series should be taken seriously by PCB. 

On the other hand we did found talented and promising players like Ihsanullah and Saim Ayub in this series. 

In the end what I will like to say is that Pakistan's morale will be down after losing an international series and Pakistani selectors should have selected the best possible team for the Afghanistan International Twenty Series held in Sharjah.