ICC World XI players arrive in Pakistan amid tight security

KARACHI: A 13-part ICC World XI side, drove by South Africa's Faf du Plessis, touched base at Allama Iqbal International Airport , Lahore in early hours of Monday, while Samuel Badree would arrive later to join the squad. 

The Faf du Plessis-drove World XI side involved five players from South Africa and furthermore a determination of enormous names from six other test-playing nations in an arrangement that has been given T20 worldwide status as exhibitions will tally in the figuring of individual rankings, ICC said in an announcement. 

Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Najam Sethi, sports serve Jahangir Khanzada alongside different authorities were available at Lahore airplane terminal to get the Faf du Plessis-drove World XI side. 

A colossal stride towards resuscitating universal cricket in Pakistan following quite a while of segregation, as all set to have the three-coordinate Independence Cup Twenty20 arrangement in the midst of tight security against a ritzy World XI beginning Tuesday. 

World XI Coach 

After his entry in Lahore, the World XI mentor Andy Flower shared a video message in which he said to be happy for being in Pakistan. He said thanks to the general population for a warm welcome at Lahore's Allama Iqbal International Airport, including that matches amongst Pakistan and World XI would be fascinating and engaging to the cricket sweethearts. 

ICC Director 

Giles Clarke, the ICC Director, who had gone to Lahore in January was idealistic that the arrangement will be the initial move towards universal cricket returning securely to Pakistan. The International Cricket Council has respected the World XI's voyage through Pakistan 

Security reinforced 

Approximately 8,000 police and paramilitary powers will monitor groups as they go forward and backward from Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium. 

Streets and shops will be shut around the 27,000-limit setting, while observers should go through different security checkpoints. 

The arrangement will be the most prominent since a 2009 aggressor assault on the Sir Lankan group transport in Lahore left eight dead and headed out global cricket and most different games. 

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has high expectations that the arrangement will close that dull section for good ─ and enable another era of players to encounter the excite of playing before a home group interestingly. 

SQUADS FOR WORLD XI TOUR OF PAKISTAN, 2017 

Pakistan: 

Sassafras Ahmed(c), Farrakhan Zaman, Ahmed Sheathed, Babar Azam, Shoaib Malik, Umar Amin, Imad Wasim, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Fahim Ashraf , Hasan Ali, Aamer Yamin, Mohammad Amir, Rumman Raees, Usman Khan, Sohail Khan 

World XI: 

David Miller, Morne Morkel, Tim Paine, Thisara Perera, Imran Tahir, Darren Sammy, Hashim Amla, Grant Elliott, Samuel Badree, George Bailey, Tamim Iqbal, Paul Collingwood, Ben Cutting, Faf du Plessis(c) 

Apparatuses 

- first T20I, September 12, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore at 8:30PM 

- second T20I, September 13, Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore at 8:00PM 

- third T20I, September 15, Qaddafi Stadium, Lahore at 8:00PM