Afridi rested for SCG Test; Ayub to debut and Imam dropped

Pakistan vice-captain Shaheen Shah Afridi has been rested for the third and final Test against Australia at the SCG to manage his workload. Saim Ayub will make his Test debut in place of opener Imam-ul-Haq, who struggled in the second Test at the MCG despite scoring a half-century in Perth. The choice that has been upheld upon the guests is the proceeded with inaccessibility of Abrar Ahmed. He bowled in the nets on Monday, yet there are waiting questions about his capacity to stay fit throughout five days, as well as worries around how his body answers being Pakistan's lead spinner and possibly blowing away 50 overs across the Test. Having pulled up with distress in his right leg during the Top state leader's XI game in Canberra, Pakistan know that gambling with playing him implies possibly going down to ten players ahead of schedule into the Test match. Abrar was accordingly administered out of every one of the Tests, and Sajid Khan, the man flown in as his substitution in Perth, will play his most memorable round of the series. It is the primary Test Sajid will play since Australia's visit through Pakistan in 2022. He tumbled down the hierarchy behind Abrar and Noman Ali since, yet wounds to both, as well as Pakistan's excitement to play a spinner at the SCG, has seen him return aside. Afridi's nonappearance is the enormous astonishment, with commander Shan Masood adulating him for being the head of the assault only hours sooner. Yet, his absence of speed since his return from injury last year has been the most discussed part of his bowling, his speed seldom transcending the low 130s. Moreover, he has needed to bear more noteworthy obligation without a trace of key cutting edge bowling accomplice Naseem Shah, with the shortfall of Pakistan's best option spinner and an unpracticed quick bowling assault tossing a significantly more noteworthy weight his direction. Thusly, he has bowled - by a wide margin - a greater number of conveyances than some other player across the two sides this series, sending down four balls short of 100 overs. The man in runner up on that rundown is offspinner Nathan Lyon at 69.5 overs. Imam being dropped to the seat is to a lesser degree a shock, not such a huge amount for his battles in Melbourne yet how withdrawn he looked while at the wrinkle. Masood likewise focused on the significance of playing going after cricket, with Imam's strike pace of 31.22 not exactly helpful for that way of thinking. While Ayub has restricted red-ball insight - the 21-year old has just played 14 top notch games - his forceful demeanor is bound to fall in line with that brand of cricket. Australian skipper Pat Cummins reported before on Tuesday that the hosts were going into the third Test with an unaltered side subsequent to having taken an unassailable 2-0 lead in this series.