Captain Misbah-ul-Haq will play the third and last Test against Australia in Sydney on Tuesday on the back of a disillusioning 2-0 arrangement overcome at Melbourne a week ago.
Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Director Media and Coordination Amjad Hussain advised DawnNews that Misbah had chosen to play the third Test.
Taking after a devastating annihilation at Melbourne, the captain communicated disappointment with his execution and said he would settle on a choice about his future in the group soon, starting theory that Misbah might prepare for retirement.
Sources guaranteed Misbah would meet PCB Chairman Shaharyar Khan not long after the group touches down in Pakistan and would likely settle on a choice about his future then.
Steve Smith's Australians wrapped up the three-coordinate arrangement with a Test to save in an emotional second innings destruction of Pakistan in two sessions in Melbourne on Friday to open up new determination conceivable outcomes for Sydney.
Smashed Pakistan could be compelled to search for another pioneer with 42-year-old Misbah conceding he was contemplating retirement, potentially even before the arrangement closes in Sydney.
Addressing the press after the match, a down and out Misbah said he would need to consider his future and settle on a choice "rapidly".
Investigate: Misbah measures alternatives in the wake of baffling Pakistan vanquish at Melbourne
"I generally trusted that in the event that I couldn't add to the group then it's no point remaining there. I haven't chose (about Sydney) yet how about we see," Misbah said. "I've never thought I'd keep playing as a weakling on the group.:
While the end looms for the man who has guided his nation to a larger number of triumphs than some other Test chief in Pakistani cricket ─ 24 in 52 Tests ─ Australia have different contemplations.
Spinners Steve O'Keefe and Ashton Agar have been incorporated into a 13-man squad for a Sydney Cricket Ground wicket that is required to turn.
Mentor Darren Lehmann raised the possibility of playing two of his three turn alternatives ─ the other is Australia's best off-spinner Nathan Lyon ─ to the detriment of paceman Jackson Bird with an all-rounder coming in.
Australia go to India for four Tests in February and March on likely turning pitches, putting the onus of O'Keefe and Agar to put in a decent tryout and assert some authority for a place on visit.
"It's more than likely that will play two of those three spinners which implies we'll likewise need to hope to fit in an all-rounder," Lehmann said.
Adaptable Agar
"It may wind up that somebody like Jackson Bird could be the unfortunate one who passes up a major opportunity, yet that will rely on upon the state of the SCG pitch. In the event that it would appear that it will give more help to the seamers, then regardless we have the choice of playing each of the three master quicks and simply the one spinner."
The all-rounder alternative could rest between Zimbabwe-conceived Hilton Cartwright or Agar, who Lehmann puts in the flexible class, saying "he's unquestionably persuaded the ability to be a batting all-rounder or a turning all-rounder".
Left-arm spinner Agar, 23, is on track to play surprisingly since his exclusive two Tests on the 2013 Ashes voyage through England, where he scored 98 on introduction at Trent Bridge batting at number 11.
Agar has in this way scored two top of the line hundreds and eight fifties.
Pakistan are confronting their twelfth straight thrashing since their last Test win in Australia in Sydney 22 years back.
Misbah was inconsolable after the Melbourne second-innings catastrophe on great batting surface that had seen the groups score an aggregate of 1,067 first-innings runs.
"Subsequent to scoring 443 try not to be in that position to lose a Test coordinate on the most recent day," Misbah said. "I think we ought to assume the fault as a batting unit in light of the fact that the pitch was great on the most recent day."
Squads:
Australia: Steve Smith (capt), David Warner, Ashton Agar, Jackson Bird, Hilton Cartwright, Peter Handscomb, Josh Hazlewood, Usman Khawaja, Nathan Lyon, Stephen O'Keefe, Matt Renshaw, Mitchell Starc, Matthew Wade.
Pakistan: Azhar Ali, Sami Aslam, Babar Azam, Younis Khan, Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), Asad Shafiq, Mohammad Nawaz, Sarfraz Ahmed, Wahab Riaz, Yasir Shah, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Asghar, Sohail Khan.
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