Pakistan, Australia faceoff in first ODI today

Lahore: The first One Day International (ODI) of three-match series between Pakistan and Australia will be played at Lahore Gaddafi Stadium on Tuesday (today).

The match will start at 03:00 pm PST.

Ironically, there will be more people at the stadium than there were last week and a louder and more partisan ambience at the stadium is most likely. 

Aussies have been plagued by injury and player availability concerns. While an elbow injury has ruled out Steve Smith from the series, Mitchell Marsh is also set to miss the ODI series with a hip flexor injury. 

Pakistan, on the other hand, Pakistanis will not see Shadab Khan in action as he will miss the first two ODIs with injury concerns. 

A statement from the board says that though Khan has recovered well, he is not yet match-ready to be available for the matches

Pakistan Squad

Babar Azam(c), Imam-ul-Haq, Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Rizwan(w), Asif Ali, Haider Ali, Saud Shakeel, Shadab Khan, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf, Usman Qadir, Shahnawaz Dahani, Mohammad Nawaz, Abdullah Shafique, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Haris, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Asif Afridi, Iftikhar Ahmed 

Australia Squad

Aaron Finch(c), Ben McDermott, Marnus Labuschagne, Travis Head, Alex Carey(w), Marcus Stoinis, Cameron Green, Ashton Agar, Ben Dwarshuis, Jason Behrendorff, Adam Zampa, Mitchell Swepson, Nathan Ellis, Sean Abbott, Josh Inglis