KARACHI: Pakistan’s cricket selectors were on Thursday overruled by a medical panel that declared fast bowler Aizaz Cheema unfit after he was included in the squad for the upcoming West Indies tour.
The 31-year-old Cheema was among the 16-man squad announced Wednesday for one Twenty20 international and five one-day matches on Pakistan’s tour to the Caribbean starting later this month.
But only a day later, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said its medical panel had ruled Cheema unfit.
“Cheema who was included in the T20 and ODI squad has been declared unfit by doctors and is being replaced by Sadaf Hussain,” the PCB said, without detailing the extent of Cheema’s injury.
Medics previously overruled Pakistan’s selection committee on the choice of another fast bowler, Sohail Tanveer, for a tour of New Zealand in January.
The 21-year-old Hussain is a left-arm medium fast bowler who took 64 wickets in Pakistan’s premier first-class tournament last season.
The team leaves Pakistan on April 14 and plays the Twenty20 in St Lucia on April 21. They will also play two Tests on the Caribbean tour.
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