Pakistan Cricket Board announces squad for tour of West Indies

The Pakistan Cricket Board has announced the squad for the tour of West Indies which is scheduled to start later in April 2011.
Following Pakistan’s 29-run defeat to India in the semi-final of the ICC World Cup 2011, the selection committee has decided to include youngsters for the tour to the Caribbean.
Shahid Afridi would lead the squad for the upcoming series as a captain while Misbah-ul-Haq, who was hugely criticised for his performance in the ICC World Cup 2011 semi-final against India, would serve as a vice captain.
On the other hand, Kamran Akmal, who displayed a dismal glove work throughout the World Cup, has been replaced by Muhammad Salman.
Senior batsman Younis Khan has also been dropped for the next series as he also could not perform up to the expectations in the recently concluded global event. In the semi-final against India, he not only batted poorly, but his fielding was also below par.
Pacer Umar Gul, who performed well throughout the ICC World Cup 2011 except for the game against India, has also been dropped.
In order to improve the batting of the Pakistan team, the PCB chief Ijaz Butt and skipper Shahid Afridi asked legendary cricketer Javed Miandad to take on the responsibilities as a batting coach ahead of the West Indies tour.
Miandad however, declined to take on the responsibility officially saying that now the time is not sufficient to train the team properly but he will keep on guiding them.
The tour to West Indies includes one Twenty20, five One Day Internationals and two Test matches. The tour will start with a warm-up game on 18 April, 2011 before it gets underway officially with the Twenty20 international on 21 April.
The squad comprises of Shahid Afridi, (captain) Misbah-ul-Haq, (vice-captain) Ahmed Shahzad, Mohammad Hafeez, Taufeeq Umar, Umar Akmal, Usman Salahuddin, Asad Shafiq, Aizaz Cheema, Hammad Azam, Junaid Khan, Tanveer Ahmed, Abdur Rehman, Saeed Ajmal, Wahab Riaz and wicketkeeper Mohammad Salman.
Rameez Raja, (junior) Sadaf Hussain, Asif Zakir, Sohail Khan and Zulfiqar Babar will be in the reserves pool.