The Pakistan cricket team, who arrived in the country on friday, will get their first feel of local conditions when they take on Zimbabwe XI in a two-day warm-up match starting at Bulawayo Athletic Club (BAC) on Sunday.
The Pakistan squad under the captainship of 37-year-old middle order batsman Misbah Ulhaq arrived in Bulawayo around midday on Friday via South Africa for one Test match, three One-Day International (ODI) matches and two Twenty20 matches between September 1-18.
The tourists’ immediate focus will be on the two-day practice match where they are expected to field their strongest side so their players quickly acclimatise to the local conditions before the Test match.
Zimbabwe, on the other hand, are likely to keep their cards very close to their chest by resting most of their senior players like they did against Bangladesh.
The element of surprise worked very well in the previous series against Bangladesh, where seamers Brian Vitori and Kyle Jarvis used
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