LAHORE: Pakistan cricket team have golden chance to win their first series win in 17 months in the second day-night match in Lahore on Friday.
The green shirts have the opportunity to capitalise on the suspension of Zimbabwe’s in-form captain Elton Chigumbura and hamstring injury sufferer Craig Ervine.
The green caps had won last one-day series against Sri Lanka in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in February 2014.
The Pakistani skipper Azhar Ali said he hoped his team would take advantage of Chigumbura’s absence after the visiting skipper struck 117 of 95 balls but was slapped with a two-match ban for a slow-over rate.
Opener Hamilton Masakadza, who will now lead Zimbabwe, hoped his side would be able to overcome the loss of Chigumbura as well as middle-order batsman Craig Ervine.
Ervine missed both the Twenty20 matches due to flu before injuring his hamstring in the one-day international.
Zimbabwe is the first Test playing country to tour Pakistan in six years following the suspension of international cricket in the country in the wake of the 2009 attacks on the Sri Lankan team bus in Lahore.
The series is being played under massive security with 4,000 policemen deployed in and around the Gaddafi Stadium.
