Pakistan to Bat, Younis Out

Dubai: Pakistan skipper Misbah-Ul-Haq won his first toss of the series and elected to bat. Younis Khan was left out of the side due to an illness, while Adnan Akmal replaced Abdur Rehman.

"Younis Khan is ill and Asad Shafiq comes back. The keeper is back in place of Rehman. Shafiq is in good touch. This wicket spins and we need a regular keeper to handle Ajmal and Afridi. We have some plans for Cook," said Misbah

Cook said "I would have liked to bat first. We hope to put pressure on Pakistan. We are going in with the same team. Everyone is performing well. We have fielded well and hopefully we can repeat the performance. Pietersen is capable and we have had good starts. It would be great to score three hundreds.

Teams

Pakistan: Mohammad Hafeez, Imran Farhat, Azhar Ali, Asad Shafiq, Misbah-ul-Haq (capt), Umar Akmal, Adnan Akmal (wk), Shahid Afridi, Saeed Ajmal, Umar Gul, Aizaz Cheema

England: Alastair Cook (capt), Kevin Pietersen, Jonathan Trott, Ravi Bopara, Eoin Morgan, Craig Kieswetter (wk), Samit Patel, Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, Graeme Swann, James Anderson

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