Fakhar Zaman is "100 percent certain" he will play for Pakistan in the future and is preparing for the 2025 Bosses Prize, which starts on February 19 and will be facilitated in Pakistan and Dubai. "A 100 percent, I will play for Pakistan (once more)," Fakhar, 34, told the Snakes Voices digital broadcast. "As a matter of fact, many individuals have barely any familiarity with that, yet after the T20 World Cup I became ill and due to the ailment I was not fit, so I was not a piece of the group. "Be that as it may, presently I [have] recuperated 100 percent, and you will see me in the following white-ball series which Pakistan play." Fakhar, when an essential piece of the Pakistan white-ball arrangement, has not played global cricket since the 2024 T20 World Cup last June in the USA and West Indies, where Pakistan were disposed of in the gathering stage. He last played an ODI in the 2023 ODI World Cup yet is confident of returning for the Bosses Prize at home. It just so happens, it was in the 2017 Heroes Prize that Fakhar shot to noticeable quality with a title-winning 114 against India in the last at The Oval in London. "My arrangement has been around the Bosses Prize," he said. "I didn't play in the Australia visit or in the South Africa visit, so my entire arrangement was simply to play in the Heroes Prize, to make myself accessible and to be completely fit for the competition. "That was in my sub-conscience, and I'm grateful, and I'm fortunate to be fit at the present time. I began from the Bosses Prize 2017 and that went all around well for myself and presently I'm extremely energized for the following version moreover. I conversed with the selectors, the lead trainer, and everybody believed that me should play in the Bosses Prize." Fakhar had high recognition for 22-year-old opener Saim Ayub, who has turned into a standard across designs for Pakistan. Ayub has had an exciting beginning to his ODI profession, with three centuries and a fifty out of nine innings, which remembers hundreds for Australia and South Africa. Notwithstanding, a lower leg break supported during the principal morning of the second Test against South Africa in Cape Town has put his Heroes Prize mission in peril. "I trust and I accept that he will recuperate rapidly, and I was figuring yesterday to call Saim just to converse with him about this injury," Fakhar said. "Take my for it, he is such an extraordinary player that assuming that he keeps on playing for the following four to five years, he will be at the top and he will be among the main three players on the planet." While Fakhar needs to open the batting for Pakistan, he may not track down a space there, with Ayub, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan as of now at the highest point of the request. "In Pakistan, we have three of the best players on the planet in Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan and Saim Ayub, so now and again I feel fortunate to be in the group regardless of whether I'm not ready to make my spot in the group as an opener," Fakhar said. "Assuming the group has confidence in me and they believe I should bat at number four or five, that absolutely seems OK, on the grounds that for me the group is in every case first and I play any place the group believes that me should play, however I generally really like to open." Fakhar is presently preparing for his lady ILT20 stretch where he will highlight for the 2023 other participants Desert Snakes. "There are numerous Pakistani players who have played for the Desert Snakes including Shadab Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Azam Khan and Mohammad Amir and they discuss this group, the climate, the administration, the manner in which they play the cricket and how their attitude is," Fakhar said. "So when I got the deal, with next to no conversation with anybody, I said 'OK, I couldn't want anything more than to play for this group.'" The ILT20 starts on January 11, with the Dubai Capitals taking on MI Emirates in Dubai.