After a gap ??of 10 years, Pakistani cricketers can finally wear white jerseys on their home soil as Test cricket is returning to the nation.

SriLanka have arrived, and they will be looking forward to the series as it is a part of the World Test Championship (WTC), and t??hey are at the 4th spot with 120 points.

📸 Sri Lanka Test Squad led by Dimuth Karunaratne arrives in Islamabad to take part in a two match Test series. #PAKvSL pic.twitter.com/2uD0hio6Lt

— Sri Lanka Cricket 🇱🇰 (@OfficialSLC) December 9, 2019

The hosts, on the other hand, will be boosted upon the arrival of Test cricket in their country, and they would also want to uplift the team’s as well as fans morale who are down and out with the clean sweep in Australia.

The opener of the two-match series will take place at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. The pitch will be a typical sub-continent wicket with a??n op??portunity for batsmen to score the runs in the first half of the match and spinners to play their part in the second half.

Pakistan have recalled top-order batsman Fawad Alam, who has been in blistering form in the domestic circuit. Apart from Test cricket, Alam is a?lso returning to the national side after a span of 10 years.

Usman?? Shinwari has been included in the sq??uad while Iftikhar Ahmed and Musa Khan are dropped from the side.

The visitors will have to play without their pacer Suranga Lakmal as the right-hander has been ruled out due to dengue. Young Asitha Fernando has replaced Lakmal. However, he will join the team only for the second Test as he is currently in Nepal as part of Sri Lanka’s squad for the South Asian Games.

Since Test cricket is ??returning to Pakistan after ten years, Bandula Warnapura and Javed Miandad, who captained Sri Lanka and Pakistan i??n their first-ever Test, have been invited as special guests.

In a show of gratitude, respect & appreciation for their services to cricket, the Pakistan Cricket Board has invited Sri Lanka’s Bandula Warnapura and Javed Miandad of Pakistan as special guests for the historic Rawalpindi Test, which will be played from 11-15th December. pic.twitter.com/tq03Y57V4W

— PTV Sports (@PTVSp0rts) December 8, 2019

Head to Head

Matches: 53
Pakistan Won: 19
Sri Lanka Won: 16
Draw: 18

Match Timings: 10:00 AM local time (5:00 AM GMT)

Venue: Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Rawalpindi

Alam is making a comeback in the squad, so it’s expected that he will feature in the playing XI. Yasir Shah could be the only spinner in the company of four pacers.

Lankans, on the other hand, looks settled. Lakmal’s exclusion might hurt them, but they do have proper backups.

Probable XI (Pakistan): Imam-ul-Haq, Fawad Alam, Azhar Ali ??(c), Babar Azam, Asad Shafiq, Haris Sohail, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Yasir Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Mohammad ?Abbas, Naseem Shah.

Probable XI (Sri Lanka): Dimuth Karunaratne (c), Lahiru?? Thirimanne, Kusal Mendis, Angelo Mathews, Kusal Perera, Dhananjaya de Silva, Niroshan Dickwella (wk), Dilruwan Perer??a, Vishwa Fernando, Lahiru Kumara, Kasun Rajitha.

Live streaming and broadcast details

The live telecast of the two-match series will run on PTV Sports. Viewers can access the broadcast?? in India at Sony Six and Sony Six HD. The match will also be live-streamed digitally on Sony Liv.

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Former fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has clearly expressed his disappointment over Sri Lankan players pulling out of the upcoming?? ODI & T20I series versus Pakistan, starting September 27. Lasith ??Mali?nga, Angelo Mathews, Dimuth Karunaratne and Niroshan Dickwella were among the ten cricketers, who decided to back out due to security reasons.

Akhtar opened up on his official Twitter handle: “So disappointed with the 10 Sri Lankan players who have pulled out of Pakistan tour. Pakistan has always been a huge support for SL cricket. Recently after deadly Easter Attacks in SL, our Under-19 team was sent on tour there, being the first international team to volunteer.�/strong>