Praggnanandhaa, 16, who in 2016 became the youngest international master in history at age 10, beat Carlsen late on Monday at the Airthings Masters rapid chess tournament. Carlsen won his fifth straight world chess title in December.

Faulkner abruptly left the league and took to social media to claim that he'd been lied to by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) and that his treatment had been a "disgrace".

Pakistan will also play three one-day internationals and a single Twenty20 match against Australia, with squads to be announced later.

For Australia, the tour will be a major test of Cricket Australia's decision to push Langer out of the coaching role.

The tour will be a huge boost for Pakistan, which was hit hard when New Zealand and England abandoned recent tours over security concerns.

Sydney Sixers captain Moises Henriques accused Hasnain of "chucking" during a Big Bash match last month, telling him "nice throw, mate" at one stage.

The 26-year-old - Muhammad Karim - is hopeful that he will give his career’s best performance at the mega event to win the hearts of the Pakistani people and Chinese spectators.

The arch-rivals will lock horns at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) on October 23, a day after Australia begin their title defence against New Zealand in Sydney

Kohli, who captained India in 95 ODIs with a 65-27 win-loss ratio, made it clear after India's Test series defeat last week that he could speak about the coming one-day games purely "from a player's point of view".

Hafeez is Pakistan's second-highest run-scorer in Twenty20s with 2,514 and also has 61 international wickets in the shortest format.

Iran does not recognise arch-rival Israel as a state and prohibits contact between athletes from the two countries.

In the third test England lost four wickets in a hostile late spell to leave them at 31-4 -still trailing Australia by 51 runs. Australia had been all out for 267, earning an 82-run lead on England's first-innings 185 on an MCG pitch that was still offering plenty for the bowlers.