Inzamam-ul-Haq has been named captain for Pakistan's five-match one-day series against South Africa next month, the Pakistan Cricket Board announced today.
Inzamam replaces Rashid Latif, who was retained in the sixteen-member squad announced by the PCB despite resigning as captain on Wednesday.
Latif, 34, decided to resign and also announced that he had quit cricket on Wednesday, but later changed his mind.
The appointment of Inzamam, who has scored 9,195 runs in 295 one-day internationals, completes a remarkable turnaround in fortunes for the bulky right-handed batsman, who was dropped after a miserable World Cup earlier this year.
The 33 year-old also replaced Latif as captain for the one-day series against Bangladesh in September, which Pakistan won 5-0.
Wicketkeeper Latif was then serving a five-match ban imposed for claiming a catch he had not taken cleanly during the third Test against Bangladesh.
The selectors have also included two spin bowlers in the squad -- leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed and off-spinner Saqlain Mushtaq.
The five matches against South Africa will be played from October 3 in Lahore, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi.
The South Africans reversed an earlier decision to cancel the tour on security grounds when Karachi and Peshawar were excluded from the fixture list.
Pakistan squad: Inzamam-ul-Haq (c), Mohammad Hafeez, Yasir Hameed, Yousuf Youhana, Younis Khan, Abdul Razzak, Shoaib Malik, Rashid Latif (wk), Mohammad Sami, Shoaib Akhtar, Umar Gul, Shabbir Ahmed, Saqlain Mushtaq, Mushtaq Ahmed, Faisal Iqbal, Salman Butt.
