The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has shortlisted 16 players out of the previously 20-man squad for the first Test against England. The first Test is scheduled to start from 5th August at Old Trafford in Manchester.
The shortlisted players are as follows:
| Azhar Ali (C) | Babar Azam (VC) | Abid Ali | Asad Shafiq |
| Fawad Alam | Imam-ul-Haq | Kashif Bhatti | Mohammad Abbas |
| Mohammad Rizwan | Naseem Shah | Sarfaraz Ahmed | Shadab Khan |
| Shaheen Afridi | Shan Masood | Sohail Khan | Yasir Shah |
The selection committee headed by Misbah-ul-Haq had earlier shortlisted 20 players for the Test series out of the 29-man squad. Faheem Ashraf, Imran Khan Snr., Usman Shinwari, and Wahab Riaz are the four players who have been excluded from the first Test’s squad.
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England had already named an unchanged 14-man squad for the Test series against Pakistan. Here’s how it stacks up:
| Joe Root (C) | James Anderson | Jofra Archer | Dominic Bess |
| Stuart Broad | Rory Burns | Jos Buttler | Zak Crawley |
| Sam Curran | Ollie Pope | Dom Sibley | Ben Stokes |
| Chris Woakes | Mark Wood |
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