Masood's team thrashed England by nine wickets in the third and final Test inside three days in Rawalpindi for a 2-1 series win.
At the close, Pakistan captain Shan Masood and Saud Shakeel were both unbeaten on 16, with the home team still trailing by 194 and the match in the balance.
England piled up 823-7 to thrash Pakistan by an innings on a lifeless Multan pitch in the first Test, before the hosts bounced back with a 152-run win on a recycled and turning Multan track.
"Everybody goes and looks at the wicket and everybody says something different," England batsman Harry Brook told reporters.
The 20-year-old leg-spinner will form a three-pronged spin attack when the match begins Thursday alongside left-armer Jack Leach and off-break bowler Shoaib Bashir.
The 152-run victory was Pakistan's first home win since February 2021 and came after they were thumped by an innings in the first Test on the same Multan pitch.
Dawood, one of the 10 older brothers, said Ghulam had learnt to be patient from very early on. "We used to play cricket at our village and would not allow Kamran to bat on the pretext that 'you are very small'," Dawood told AFP from Peshawar, in Pakistan's northwest, on the phone.
With Pakistan resting an out-of-form Babar Azam after their innings defeat in the series opener, Kamran was drafted in and the 29-year-old impressed immediately with a stellar 118 that included 11 fours and a six.
Stokes was sidelined for England's recent Test series against Sri Lanka due to the hamstring tear he suffered playing for Northern Superchargers in The Hundred on August 11.
Masood's team thrashed England by nine wickets in the third and final Test inside three days in Rawalpindi for a 2-1 series win.
At the close, Pakistan captain Shan Masood and Saud Shakeel were both unbeaten on 16, with the home team still trailing by 194 and the match in the balance.
England piled up 823-7 to thrash Pakistan by an innings on a lifeless Multan pitch in the first Test, before the hosts bounced back with a 152-run win on a recycled and turning Multan track.
"Everybody goes and looks at the wicket and everybody says something different," England batsman Harry Brook told reporters.
The 20-year-old leg-spinner will form a three-pronged spin attack when the match begins Thursday alongside left-armer Jack Leach and off-break bowler Shoaib Bashir.
The 152-run victory was Pakistan's first home win since February 2021 and came after they were thumped by an innings in the first Test on the same Multan pitch.
Dawood, one of the 10 older brothers, said Ghulam had learnt to be patient from very early on. "We used to play cricket at our village and would not allow Kamran to bat on the pretext that 'you are very small'," Dawood told AFP from Peshawar, in Pakistan's northwest, on the phone.
With Pakistan resting an out-of-form Babar Azam after their innings defeat in the series opener, Kamran was drafted in and the 29-year-old impressed immediately with a stellar 118 that included 11 fours and a six.
Stokes was sidelined for England's recent Test series against Sri Lanka due to the hamstring tear he suffered playing for Northern Superchargers in The Hundred on August 11.
Stokes will skipper the side after missing the 2-1 home series win against Sri Lanka with a hamstring injury. Opener Zak Crawley is also in the squad announced on Tuesday after missing the same series with a broken finger.
