Pakistan Board XI v India - 4 day First Class match 2016 - Match Preview

Pakistan Board XI v India - 4 day First Class match 2016 - Gaddafi Stadium Lahore

Pitch: 22 - A carefully prepared home track that will certainly favour the spinners later in the match.     Batting should be relatively easy for the first couple of days but thereafter the spinners should find conditions increasingly in their favour. Not much in it for the  quickies at any time.

Day 1 pitch: 3 - Normal

Day 1 weather: 2 - Hot and sunny

Pakistan Board XI:

Khurram Manzoor
Shan Masood
Babar Azam
Umar Akmal
Shoaib Malik (c)
Kamran Akmal (wk)
Iftikhar Ahmed
Mohammad Nawaz
Sohail Khan
Rahat Ali
Ehsan Adil

Indian XI:

K.L.Rahul
M.Vijay
V.Kohli (c)
A.M.Rahane
S.K.Raina
N.V.Ojha (wk)
R.Ashwin
S.T.R.Binny
A.Mishra
Mohammad Shami
U.T.Yadav

India rotate their squad to give everyone some match practice before the Test series starts, while the home side's bowlers will be most under scrutiny as far as Test selection is concerned.
The ease with which India won the 1st game makes them favourites for this one, with the pitch set to heavily favour spin late in the match.