The return match will be staged in Cairo at the 37, 000-seat Military Academy Stadium because the much bigger Cairo Stadium is needed for the Pan-Arab Games.
Pakistan will play three one-day internationals and two Twenty20 games against New Zealand in the United Arab Emirates, before travelling to New Zealand for a three-Test series.
But the rest of his fellow recruits may well have benefited from more than just the two warm-up games scheduled, the second of which is against the United Arab Emirates in Germany next weekend.
The Somerset man has a remarkable average of 93 on this tour of the United Arab Emirates, having scored 31, 77 not out, 40 not out and 50 in the four preceding Lions games.