IND v PAK Asia Cup 2022: Mohammad Wasim ruled out due to injury, Hasan Ali in as replacement

New Delhi: After Shaheen Shah Afridi, Mohammad Wasim is also ruled out of the Asia Cup 2022 due to a side strain. Looking at Pakistan’s young pace attack, PCB decided to include Hasan Ali in the squad. Hasan was one of the notable players to not be included when the squad was announced.

Mohammad Wasim, who turned 21 a few days ago, complained of pain in his lower back during a bowling session at the ICC Academy. He was part of all three training sessions for Pakistan before the incident happened. The pacer was taken for precautionary MRI scans as the board did not want to take a risk with the youngster’s fitness, looking forward to the upcoming Men’s T20 World Cup in Australia. The reports said that he had suffered a side strain.

Hasan Ali, who is not in a good form currently, was asked as the replacement by the team management. Earlier, Naseem Shah was picked up as Ali’s replacement in the team seeing his poor form. Ali has played eight T20I games in the last year and has managed to take just eight wickets and in the three ODIs in the last 12 months, he averaged 76.50. He played nine games in the last PSL and picked just nine wickets with an economy rate of 10.84.

Hasan had been at the PCB’s high-performance centre in Lahore training after being dropped from the squad for the ODI series against the Netherlands. However, he adds experience to Pakistan’s young pace attack that has Haris Rauf, Shahnawaz Dahani and Naseem Shah.