LAHORE:- Pakistan cricket team left for Ireland on Monday evening to play T20 series ahead of World Cup.
The team led by Babar Azam flew to Ireland from Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore. Fast bowler Mohammad Amir could not accompany the team due to visa delay. He will join the team soon.
Acting Punjab Governor Muhammad Ahmed Khan met the team at the airport. He wishes the national team the best on their tour of Ireland and England.
In Ireland, Pakistan will play three T20 matches on May 10, 12 and 14, after which the team will travel to England for four matches on May 22, 25, 28 and 30.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday announced the national team kit for the T20 World Cup.
PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi, Captain Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi and other PCB officials attended the inauguration ceremony at Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore.
PCB chairman Mohsin Naqvi has expressed confidence that the national cricket team will bring home the T20 World Cup trophy like in 2009.
If it were up to him, he said, he would announce a prize of more than $100,000 for the team. He said that the national cricket team has immense talent and will get additional rewards for their victories.
He is planning to go to the US to watch the Pakistan-India match.
Skipper Babar Azam has expressed hope that the Green Shirts will win the T20 World Cup in the United States and the West Indies next month.
“We have also taken trophies in the past and I hope we will come back with trophies,” Babar said at a press conference at the Gaddafi Stadium here.
He believes that every player in the team will give 100 percent in the World Cup.
