The first 'Test' of three-match series will be played at Rawalpindi from Feb 13.

The touring Indian team will play three 'Test' and as many One-Day matches.

Test paceman Aaqib Javed was appointed as the captain of the team while Test discarded middle-order batsman Basit Ali was named his deputy.

The squad includes slogger Shahid Afridi, opener Salim Elahi middleorder batsman Hasan Raza and leg-spinner Muhammad Husain. Humayun Farhat who had displayed good performance in the recently concluded Junior World Cup in South Africa is the wicketkeeper.

Former Test cricketer and a member of the PCB selection committee Shafique Ahmad ``Papa'' has been named as manager of the team.

The team for the remaining matches of the series will be announced before the start of each encounter.

Besides Aaqib Javed the other pacemen included in the team are Fazali-Akbar, Naeem Ashraf and Jafar Nazir.

The council meeting was chaired by the newly appointed PCB chairman Khalid Mahmood which was his first after assuming the new assignment. The meeting lasted about three hours and held detailed discussion before giving approval to the team which had been finalised by national selection committee headed by Salim Altaf on Saturday.