Pakistan v Australia, 1st ODI, Sharjah

August 28-29, 2012
 Start time 1800 (1400 GMT)

Pakistan (squad) Misbah-ul-Haq (capt),

Nasir Jamshed, Mohammad Hafeez,

Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq, Umar Akmal,

Kamran Akmal (wk), Shahid Afridi,

Sohail Tanvir, Aizaz Cheema, Saeed Ajmal, Imran Farhat, Shoaib Malik,

Abdur Rehman, Junaid Khan, Anwar Ali

Australia have made one change from the side that beat Afghanistan, leaving out their frontline spinner Xavier Doherty. The allrounder Daniel Christian will take his place, meaning plenty of seam-bowling options for Michael Clarke, while the spin duties will be shared by Glenn Maxwell, David Hussey and Clarke himself. It remains to be seen whether Matthew Wade will open or be moved down the order to give him some respite from the heat.

Australia 1 Matthew Wade (wk),

2 David Warner, 3 Michael Clarke (capt),

4 Michael Hussey, 5 David Hussey,

6 George Bailey, 7 Glenn Maxwell,

8 Daniel Christian, 9 Mitchell Johnson,

10 Mitchell Starc, 11 James Pattinson