SYDNEY
Pakistan team management made a principled decision to drop left-handed opener Imamul-Haq while changing the team in the Sydney Test against Australia.
Saeem Ayub will be given his debut.
The 28-year-old opener Imam-ul-Haq scored 1568 runs at an average of 37.33 in 24 Test matches, including 3 centuries and 9 fifties.
Imam-ul-Haq scored 62 in the first innings of the Perth Test and 10 in the second innings. Against Australia, the left-handed batsman scored 10 and 12 in the second Test in Melbourne.
Imamul Haq has scored 94 runs with a half-century in the two Tests of the ongoing Benu Qadir Trophy in Australia, but the team management has serious reservations about the playing style of the left-handed opener. Imamul Haq has played 301 balls in the series so far. which are the highest of any Pakistani batter.
Abdullah Shafiq, who opened the innings with him at the second position, scored 110 runs off 249 balls.
The team management replace Imam-ul-Haq with aggressive young batsman Saeem Ayub in the third Test.
Imam-ul-Haq scored 12 runs off 38 balls in the second innings of the Melbourne Test, before that, Imam-ul-Haq, the top scorer of Pakistani innings, scored 62 runs off 199 balls in the first innings of the Perth Test, Imam-ul-Haq scored his first run on 18th ball in the second innings of the Melbourne Test.
Saeem Ayub will open the innings with Abdullah Shafiq.
