A knee injury has ruled the Pakistan allrounder Imad Wasim out of contention for the five-match ODI series in New Zealand, which begins on January 6. Mohammad Amir and Azhar Ali, meanwhile, are back in the ODI squad, after recovering from injuries that kept them out of the ODIs against Sri Lanka in October.
Left-arm quicks Usman Khan (stress fracture of the back) and Junaid Khan (stress fracture of the foot) are also out of the 15-member squad, while Ahmed Shehzad has made way for the return of Azhar.
The left-arm spin-bowling allrounder Mohammad Nawaz, who last played an ODI in January, has come into the squad as a like-for-like replacement for Imad, while the seam-bowling allrounder Aamer Yamin, who hasn’t played an international game since November 2015, is also back in the squad.
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Source: ESPN Crickinfo