Pakistan cricket team returns home after West Indies tour
Last updated on: 27 August,2021 03:33 pm
As Misbah-ul-Haq was tested positive for COVID-19, he did not return Lahore.
LAHORE (Dunya News) - The triumphant Pakistan cricket team returned Lahore from Jamaica on Friday after winning the T20I series and levelling the two-match test series by 1-1 against West Indies.
Skipper Babar Azam, Abid Ali, Imran Butt, Fawad Alam, Muhammad Rizwan and Shaheen Shah Afridi along with other members of the team management arrived at the Allama Iqbal International Airport this morning.
Naseem Shah and Yasir Shah travelled to Antigua to participate in the Caribbean Premier League while Muhammad Abbas and Azhar Ali did not return home as both the players stayed in London to play county cricket.
Pakistan maintained their series winning streak over the West Indies as rain had the final say with the scheduled final encounter of the four-match T20 International series abandoned as a no-result at the National Stadium in Guyana.
Pakistan clinched the four-match T20 International series by 1-0 against West Indies.
As the Pakistan head coach Misbah-ul-Haq was tested positive for COVID-19, he did not return Lahore.
Misbah, who is asymptomatic, is undergoing a 10-day quarantine, following which he will return Pakistan.
The head coach was the only Pakistan squad member who failed two pre-departure PCR tests. All other members left Jamaica for home.