Khurram Manzoor is not good enough at this level, although he’s still new he needs alot more batting practice to improve his technique. Imran Farhat is useless, why he is in the test team when he hardly played in the one day series makes me very confused. Fawad alam’s position in the team is questionable, he is an alrounder yet he hardly bowls and he bats at such a key position (3) with very less experience. Malik’s continuous inclusion in the team is dumbfounding, he has had a very poor year with the bat, he also doesn’t bowl, so he needs to be dropped very quickly so that he can go away and regain form if he ever wants to play in the team again.

The bowling unit for Pakistan was very impressive in the first test, a very good return for Asif, though Kaneria needs to be brought back, as he is a very good and experienced test bowler who can trouble the Kiwi batsmen.
Overall the changes need to come in the batting department, with Misbah coming back it should add a little more solidarity to the middle order, and Butt needs to be brought back as one of the openers.

Pakistan also need 1 or 2 good solid allrounders, in the form of either Afridi or Razzaq, however at the moment there services are just restricted to the limited overs format of the game which is a shame.