Its a pretty balanced squad for this series as you can afford to give youngster chances, but this squad isn't free from some blunders as expected. The biggest cricketing culprit here is Wahab Riaz who have been given preference over Junaid Khan. It has been highly unfair with the bowler since Inzy has taken up the role of chairman of selectors. He has been our prime bowler and after getting fit and performing so great in the one day cricket, He deserved the chance first before "The Wahab Riaz"
In my view, I can accept not inducting Shehzad here, Its good that Shan Masood, Sami Aslam have grabbed chances as these are more younger blood for the test cricket, but Shehzad should have been selected as a third opener though. Azhar Ali is no specialist opener... and Shehzad deserved another test run after the windies test series. The middle order looks good with Haris, Azam, Shafiq and Azhar Ali. Shafiq needs more consistency, I haven't seen Usman Salahuddin yet, Anyone has?
On another note, I have all the respect for Inzy as a player for sure and Overall he has been proved a good enough selector so far, But on the flip side, We can notice that Inzy has been more concerned about inducting Salman Butt back in the squad than caring about the other fresh openers who deserve chances more enough than Butt itself. Butt is no middle order batsman and the only way you can induct him back is when you forcefully exclude one good opener from the squad, So if Shan or Sami doesn't perform in this series, Will Inzy give chance to Salman Butt before Ahmed Shahzad in the test squad? Its obvious that Salman But will perform good in A squad. Does he really deserve a deserving chance? First Inzy forced Kamran Akmal's selection despite concerns from Mickey Arthur I believe, Now it seems that Inzy is after one of the openers to give Salman Butt chance back, Just waiting for the right time.
I feel like that Salman Butt should only given chance if Pakistan gets too short from openers.. Like if all the available openers from the huge talent lot perform so miserably only then Salman can be given a chance but I wonder why Inzy is talking about Salman Butt at this stage when you have all your openers set and fresh... He should get a deserving chance rather than a forced chance
Upon Fawad Alam, I think The selection management have made up a mind of not having him in any of the three formats
