Fantasy XI: Back the in-form Shaheen Afridi and Mohammad Rizwan
Match 24: Afghanistan vs Pakistan, Dubai
Fantasy XI: Mohammad Rizwan (vice-capt), Babar Azam, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Fakhar Zaman, Hazratullah Zazai, Mohammad Hafeez, Shadab Khan, Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Shaheen Shah Afridi (capt), Haris Rauf
Captain: Shaheen Shah Afridi
He has taken 18 wickets in his last nine T20s in Dubai, the same venue where he got three wickets against India in the ongoing World Cup.
Vice-captain: Mohammad Rizwan
His last seven scores for Pakistan in T20Is read 91*, 63, 37, 76*, 46, 79* and 33.
Babar Azam: His scores for Pakistan in Dubai include 55*, 19, 45, 50, 40, 79 and 68*.
Rahmanullah Gurbaz: He has been Afghanistan's leading run-scorer in the format since his T20I debut in 2019, with 492 runs in 14 innings at a strike rate of 141.78.
Fakhar Zaman: He has been in good form, recording scores of 52* (28) and 46* (24) in the two warm-up games ahead of the T20 World Cup.
Hazratullah Zazai: In PSL 2021, he scored 212 runs in five games at a strike rate of 185.96, with three half-centuries. His last two scores for Afghanistan are 44 (30) and 56 (35).
Mohammad Hafeez: Since the start of 2020, he has been in solid form with the bat, scoring 532 runs in 18 innings at an average of 35.47 and at a strike rate of 143.40.
Shadab Khan: He has taken 14 wickets with an economy rate of 6.28 in his last ten appearances in Dubai.
Rashid Khan: He has been a standout bowler for Afghanistan in T20 World Cups, taking 15 wickets in eight outings.
Mujeeb Ur Rahman: He put in a Player-of-the-Match performance in the last game where he became the first Afghanistan player to take a five-wicket haul in World Cups, bagging 5 for 20 against Scotland.
Haris Rauf: He has not gone wicketless in his last eight outings for Pakistan, picking up 14 wickets during this period.