PCB chief executive Ramiz Raja said the wicket will have bounce for the first two days and then will settle down.
The Pakistan captain said Tendulkar thoroughly deserves the honour of being the first to score 13,000 runs in one-dayers.\n\n
Razzaq hit 89 from 40 balls, but Pakistan, chasing 308, fell short by four runs in the fifth and final ODI.\n\n
Shoaib Akhtar appeared on the front page of a New Zealand newspaper jet-skiing when he was supposed to be recovering from injury.
The Pakistan coach was concerned with the heavy overnight rain in Wellington that cleared on Tuesday morning but caused a delay.
"We seem to have trouble in icing the cake," said the NZ captain.
Shoaib Akhtar ripped through New Zealand's batting, taking six wickets on the fourth day of the second Test.
Pakistan leg spinner Mushtaq Ahmed has been ruled out of the rest of the one-day series against South Africa with a pulled stomach muscle.
The Pakistan batsman completed 9,000 runs in the 137-run win over Bangladesh in the first ODI of the series.
Pakistan posted 323 for 3, their highest ODI total against Bangladesh, and then bowled out the visitors for 186 in 43.2 overs. \n\n
His memorable 138 runs steered Pakistan to a one-wicket victory in the third Test.
Pakistan were 301 for five at the close on the second day of the first Test.
The prolific batsman, dropped after the World Cup, is among the probables for the Test series against Bangladesh.
The Pakistan captain is keen to carry on playing for another two years.
The Pakistan captain became the 14th player in Test history to score more than 8,000 runs.
Vaughan is regarded by Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul Haq as England's key player.
The Pakistan captain scored his 24th Test hundred to set a new record for most Test centuries by a Pakistani batsman.
Nantie Hayward took three for 29 and Makhaya Ntini three for 45 as Pakistan crashed to 120 for eight, in reply to the home side's first innings of 368.
Vital wickets from seamer Jacques Kallis and a career best 93 from Boeta Dippenaar inspired South Africa to a 34 run win over Pakistan in the fifth one-day international on Wednesday to give the home side a 4-1 series victory.
Inzamam also labelled Dhoni as the best Indian skipper and credited him for developing match-winners like Suresh Raina and Ravichandran Ashwin.
Yousuf Youhana scored a century as Pakistan joined Australia in the final of a one-day series with a 30-run win over West Indies.
Chief Selector Inzamam-ul-Haq, announcing the World Cup squad and two reserve players, said the 11 from the 2017 Champions Trophy had been retained in the selection process.
Veteran batsman Younis Khan has become Pakistan's all-time leading Test run-scorer, surpassing Javed Miandad's tally of 8832 runs on the opening day of the first Test against England in Abu Dhabi.
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