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Pakistan, Bangladesh look to the future with WC on horizon
Gulf Today
|May 28, 2025
Next year’s World Cup is in sight as a new-look Pakistan under Mike Hesson host a young Bangladesh team in Lahore in three Twenty20 internationals from Wednesday.
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The 2009 world champions Pakistan have endured a significant downturn in the last 12 months and crashed out in the first round of the World Cup in 2024.
They have won only three of their last 13 T20ls, two against minnows Zimbabwe, and slumped to eighth in the T2OI rankings.
With a new head coach in New Zealand's Hesson they are looking to younger players with the World Cup in India and Sri Lanka just eight months away.
Star batsmen Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan, and pace spearhead Shaheen Shah Afridi, have all been axed.
This story is from the May 28, 2025 edition of Gulf Today.
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