Pakistan squad leaving for Over-50 World Cup Cricket Tournament 2020 on Sunday.

KARACHI -- Pakistan will open their campaign in the Over-50 World Cup Cricket Tournament 2020 with a game against Namibia at the Western Province Cricket Club Ground in Cape Town, SouthAfrica, on March 11. The 15-member Pakistan squad, captained by Ghaffar Kazmi, with Sajid Ali being the vicecaptain, will be flying out to South Africa on Sunday (today). Mahmood Hamid, Jaffer Qureshi, Dastagir Butt, Muhammad Javed, Babar Butt, Raja Arshad Hayat, Azhar Khan, Azizur-Rahman, Zafar Ali, Fawad Bari, Imtiaz Tarar, Asif Hayat and Ahmed Hayat are the other members of the National Over50 team while Behzad Anwar and Aamir Sarfaraz will be accompanying them as manager and assistant manager respectively. Having gone down fighting against hosts Australia in the final of the inaugural Over-50 World Cup Cricket Tournament at Sydney in 2018, Pakistan feature in the Group B in the company of England, South Africa, Wales, India and Namibia while holders Australia have been drawn in the Group A alongwith New Zealand, Canada, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. The top two...

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