"We have a good chance against Australia, the way we are playing. We must just keep doing what we are doing," Butt told reporters.
Pakistan's captain says past record will have no bearing on the series. 'Whoever plays well consistently will win.'
The 18-man provisional squad includes uncapped Riffatullah Mohmand who scored 444 runs with three hundreds in Pakistan's premier domestic cricket tournament Quaid-e-Azam Trophy in 2005.
Haroon Rasheed said there is tremendous exaggeration of facts whenever Shoaib Akhtar has been involved.
Salman Butt and Yasir Hameed slammed half centuries as Pakistan beat World Cup runners-up Sri Lanka by 98 runs to claim the three-match Warid Cup series in Abu Dhabi on Sunday
England fast bowler Matthew Hoggard was reported for excessive appealing as he celebrated the dismissal of Pakistan opening batsman Salman Butt.
Dwayne Bravo scored a quickfire 108 in the drawn two-day tour match against a PCB Patrons XI.
The PCB left out fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar from a 16-member squad for the six-match one day series against India.
Some Pakistan players have reportedly asked the PCB to omit fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar from the squad for the India tour.
India clinched a 46-run win in the third ODI against Pakistan, despite a career-best 129 from Salman Butt, to take a 2-1 lead in the five-game series.
The International Cricket Council asked Al Jazeera to share evidence that would help the governing body further investigate corruption in the sport after the news organisation aired a documentary on the matter last weekend.
Banned Salman Butt was asked by the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit to appear for a hearing.
Pakistan won the unofficial four-day Test by seven wickets.
Match-fixing has become a major concern for the ICC in recent years.
Flamboyant allrounder and former captain, Shahid Afridi believes that Pakistan cricket think-tank has erred by having too many expectations from out of favor batsmen, Ahmed Shehzad and Umar Akmal. "I don't know but it was wrong to expect them to be like Virat Kohli or Ab de Villiers and perform like them," Afridi said on Geo News channel on Monday. Shehzad and Umar considered to be two of the country's best young batting talent have been axed for the tour to England on disciplinary grounds and were not called for the training and skills camps set up by the cricket board. PCB Chairman, Shaharyar Khan made it clear that it was the decision of the new selection committee to sideline the two youngsters. Afridi said there was no doubt that Shehzad and Umar needed to work hard on their cricket and approach. "I also agree there should be no compromise on discipline. But I think it is best if we stop expecting too much from them and just let them be and let them play the way they do. With more experience I am sure they will be much better," he added.
The opening batsman was dropped for the two matches against India after a string of poor scores.
The all rounder was recalled to the squad for the triangular series in the Netherlands and the ICC Champions Trophy.
Irfan Pathan made history on Sunday when he became the first bowler to claim a hat-trick in the first over of a Test.
Pakistan have selected two uncapped teenagers in a 15-man squad for the two-Test series against Sri Lanka starting on October 20.
The report said the use of debit cards would allow the ICC Anti-Corruption sleuths to keep trackof all financial transactions during the tournament by players, team and match officials.
The Pakistan all-rounder scored a quickfire 81 as Pakistan beat India 'A' by eight wickets in a warm-up one-day game.
The Pakistan opener expressed hope that the wickets for the Tests would be much better.
The start of play was delayed by roughly an hour due to bad light.
Pakistan were bowled out for 262 against Western Australia on Thursday in a worrying sign for the tourists ahead of next week's first Test against Australia.
Salman Butt enhanced his claims for a recall to the Pakistan test side with an unbeaten century in his team's first official tour match in Australia.
Pakistan ended the third day of the first Test on 113 for 4 in the second innings after Shivnarine Chanderpaul's unbeaten 153 put the Windies in command.
Former Pakistan spinner Danish Kaneria on Saturday accused Shahid Afridi of treating him unfairly all through his career and blamed him for a rather short limited overs career. Kaneria, only the second Hindu to play for Pakistan after his maternal uncle Anil Dalpat, took 261 wickets in 61 Tests at an average of 34.79. However, he only played 18 ODIs between 2000 and 2010.
5 instances when teams didn't cross the 70 run mark in 13 seasons.
In a massive relief for Mohammad Amir, a Pakistan court rejected a petition against the inclusion of convicted spot-fixer in the national team.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) will allow disgraced former captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif to return to domestic cricket after they are through with their rehabilitation programme.
Australia's batsmen made mincemeat of a listless Indian bowling attack at Jaipur in the second ODI to post a massive 359 for 5, and also set a new world record in the process with their top five compiling individual half centuries.
Pakistan won 24 of its 53 Test matches under Misbah and, for the first time, occupied the top Test rankings last year before a dip in form set in.
Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt admitted on Friday to cheating on his country's tour of England in 2010 and said he would like to play domestic cricket once his ban for spot-fixing is completed.
Acknowledging the receipt of Pakistan Cricket Board's request letter for tainted pacer Mohammad Amir's early return to cricket, International Cricket Council chief executive officer Dave Richardson on Monday said that the international body has taken note of the issue but the matter will take some time to get resolved.
Tainted former Pakistan pacer Mohammad Asif says he wasn't the first nor would be the last to have indulged in spot-fixing and should have been treated better by the Pakistan Cricket Board, which gave "everyone a second chance" except for him. Asif was banned for seven years for his role in the 2010 spot-fixing scandal during Pakistan's tour of England, where he bowled deliberate no balls for money. He also served jail time in the UK after being found guilty along with Mohammad Amir and Salman Butt.
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