The Asian two rivals India and Pakistan gear up the fire in the cricket world at the end of the year 2007. Both teams are confident to win the most prestigious series. And thus two teams re-shuffle their team to get success.
In India, Rahul Dravid and Dinesh Karthik have been left out of the Indian squad for the first two one-dayers against Pakistan. Virender Sehwag makes a comeback, as does Gautam Gambhir, who recently recovered from a groin strain, while Uttar Pradesh allrounder Praveen Kumar is the only new face. The series kicks off on November 5, with the first ODI in Guwahati.
In Pakistan, Shoaib Akhtar included with the team to shine their bowling action and after rejecting the captaincy twice in his career, Pakistan batsman Younis Khan has accepted the responsibility of taking over as the vice-captain for the tour of India, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced today.Younis takes over from opener Salman Butt, who held the post through the two-Test series against South Africa.
Fixtures
Pakistan tour of India, 2007/08
| November 2007 | |
| Fri 2 09:00 local, 03:30 GMT | Delhi v Pakistanis Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi |
| Mon 5 09:00 local, 03:30 GMT | 1st ODI - India v Pakistan Nehru Stadium, Guwahati |
| Thu 8 D/N 14:30 local, 09:00 GMT | 2nd ODI - India v Pakistan Punjab C.A. Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh |
| Sun 11 09:00 local, 03:30 GMT | 3rd ODI - India v Pakistan Green Park, Kanpur |
| Thu 15 D/N 14:30 local, 09:00 GMT | 4th ODI - India v Pakistan Captain Roop Singh Stadium, Gwalior |
| Sun 18 D/N 14:30 local, 09:00 GMT | 5th ODI - India v Pakistan Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur |
| Thu 22 - Mon 26 09:30 local, 04:00 GMT | 1st Test - India v Pakistan Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi |
| Fri 30 - Tue 4 09:30 local, 04:00 GMT | 2nd Test - India v Pakistan Eden Gardens, Kolkata |
| December 2007 | |
| Sat 8 - Wed 12 09:30 local, 04:00 GMT | 3rd Test - India v Pakistan M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore |
The Two Teams:
Pakistan: Shoaib Malik (c), Younis Khan (vc), Abdur Rehman, Fawad Alam, Iftikhar anjum, Imran Nazir, Kamran Akmal (wk), Misbah-ul-Haq, Mohammad Asif, Mohammad Yousuf, Salman Butt, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Akhtar, Sohail Tanvir, Umar Gul, Yasir Hameed.
India: MS Dhoni, Gautam Gambhir, Sourav Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh, Murali Kartik, Zaheer Khan, Praveen Kumar, Irfan Pathan, Virender Sehwag, Rohit Sharma, Rudra Pratap Singh, Sreesanth, Sachin Tendulkar, Robin Uthappa, Yuvraj Singh.
