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Harare: Pakistan on Wednesday announced they would retain off-spinning allrounder Bilal Asif for the one-day series against Zimbabwe to assess his potential ahead of next month's series against England.
The 30-year-old was not played in the two Twenty20 match series which Pakistan won 2-0 in Harare on Tuesday. The three one-day internationals start from Thursday.
Chief selector Haroon Rasheed said Test captain Misbah-ul-Haq wanted to see Asif in action ahead of the three-Test series against England in United Arab Emirates (UAE).
"The request to retain Asif had been made by the team management and in a separate discussion with Misbah, we decided to assess Asif as another spinning option in UAE," Rasheed was quoted as saying in a Pakistan Cricket Board release.
Pakistan already have leg-spinner Yasir Shah and left-armer Zulfiqar Babar in their 15-man squad for England Tests which begin in Abu Dhabi on October 13.
A spin-heavy Pakistan attack was inevitable after their 3-0 rout of England, then ranked number one, the last time the two sides met in the UAE in 2012.
Off-spinner Saeed Ajmal took 24 wickets while left-armer Abdur Rehman nabbed 19 wickets.
