Zimbabwe bowl as Brendan Taylor misses first Test against Pakistan

Zimbabwe have won the toss and elected to bowl in the first Test. The big news is that Brendan Taylor is not playing today as he became a father in the morning and Hamilton Masakadza will captain Zimbabwe in this game.

Zimbabwe are going to miss Brendan Taylor in the first Test against Pakistan © AFP

Sep 3, 2013

Zimbabwe have won the toss and elected to bowl in the first Test. The big news is that Brendan Taylor is not playing today as he became a father in the morning and Hamilton Masakadza will captain Zimbabwe in this game.

The hosts are all set to return to the ICC Test Team Rankings Table for the first time since May 2007 and will be placed ninth irrespective of the result of their two-match series against fourth-ranked Pakistan starting in Harare on Tuesday.

Zimbabwe pulled out of playing Test cricket in January 2006 and, since their return in August 2011 after a gap of five years, the team has been unranked, having not played the requisite eight qualifying Tests to be part of the rankings table.
  
Teams:

Zimbabwe: Vusi Sibanda, Tino Mawoyo, Hamilton Masakadza (c), Sikandar Raza, Malcolm Waller, Richmond Mutumbami (wk), Elton Chigumbura, Prosper Utseya, Shingirai Masakadza, Tinashe Panyangara, Tendai Chatara

Pakistan: Mohammad Hafeez, Khurram Manzoor, Azhar Ali, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq (c), Asad Shafiq, Adnan Akmal (wk), Abdur Rehman, Saeed Ajmal, Junaid Khan, Rahat Ali

Catch live scorecard and ball-by-ball commentary of the first day’s play between Zimbabwe and Pakistan here

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