Pakistani Cricket Team in England in 2006 - Squads

Squads

Pakistan
Name Style Domestic team(s)
Inzamam-ul-Haq c RHB, SLA Multan
Kamran Akmal wk RHB NBP, Lahore Ravi
Abdul Razzaq RHB, RFM Lahore Ravi
Danish Kaneria RHB, LB HBL, Karachi Urban
Faisal Iqbal RHB, RM PIA, Karachi Harbour
Iftikhar Anjum RHB, RM ZTBL, Islamabad
Imran Farhat LHB, LB HBL, Lahore Shalimar
Mohammad Asif LHB, RFM NBP, Sialkot
Mohammad Hafeez RHB, OB SNGPL, Faisalabad
Mohammad Sami RHB, RF NBP, Karachi Harbour
Mohammad Yousuf RHB WAPDA, Lahore Ravi
Naved-ul-Hasan RHB, RMF Sialkot
Salman Butt LHB, OB NBP, Lahore Shalimar
Samiullah Khan Niazi RHB, LMF SNGPL, Faisalabad
Shahid Afridi RHB, LBG HBL
Shahid Nazir RHB, RFM HBL, Faisalabad
Shahid Yousuf RHB, RMF NBP, Sialkot
Shoaib Akhtar RHB, RF Rawalpindi
Shoaib Malik RHB, OB PIA, Sialkot
Taufeeq Umar LHB, OB HBL, Lahore Ravi
Umar Gul RHB, RFM PIA, Peshawar
Younis Khan RHB, RM HBL, Peshawar
Naved-ul-Hasan withdrew before the series started, and was replaced by Samiullah Khan Niazi. He returned to the squad for the fourth Test, but was not selected.

On 15 July, Mohammad Asif and Shoaib Malik returned home, and were replaced by Iftikhar Anjum and Taufeeq Umar. Iftikhar Anjum left several days later following his father's death, with no replacement called up.

Salman Butt, Samiullah Khan Niazi and Taufeeq Umar travelled home before the fourth Test, and Mohammad Hafeez was called up.

Faisal Iqbal, Mohammad Sami and Shahid Nazir returned home after the Test series, and were replaced by Shahid Yousuf and Shoaib Malik. Mohammad Asif and Shoaib Akhtar only played in the ODI series, having returned from injury.

England
Name Style Domestic team
Andrew Strauss c LHB, LM Middlesex
Geraint Jones wk RHB Kent
Chris Read wk RHB Nottinghamshire
Ian Bell RHB, RM Warwickshire
Stuart Broad LHB, RMF Leicestershire
Rikki Clarke RHB, RFM Surrey
Paul Collingwood RHB, RM Durham
Alastair Cook LHB, SLA Essex
Jamie Dalrymple RHB, OB Middlesex
Darren Gough RHB, RF Essex
Steve Harmison RHB, RF Durham
Matthew Hoggard RHB, RFM Yorkshire
Ed Joyce LHB, RM Middlesex
Jon Lewis RHB, RM Gloucestershire
Sajid Mahmood RHB, RFM Lancashire
Graham Onions RHB, RFM Durham
Monty Panesar LHB, SLA Northamptonshire
Kevin Pietersen RHB, OB Hampshire
Liam Plunkett RHB, RMF Durham
Marcus Trescothick LHB, RM Somerset
Michael Yardy LHB, SLA Sussex
Dalrymple was only selected for the second Test, and later withdrawn along with Plunkett as the squad was cut down from 14 to 12.

Read was added for the third Test after Jones suffered a finger injury, though the English chairman of selectors said that "the decision was taken regardless of the injury to Geraint's finger" He also played the fourth Test.

Broad, Clarke, Gough, Joyce and Yardy were only selected for the ODI squad. Hoggard and Panesar were only selected for the Test squad.

Gough withdrew after the second ODI with a shin injury, and Onions was called up to replace him.

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