The 25-year old spoke about the new challenge he faced in South Africa in the Test series about how dangerous it is for an opener to face seam, bounce and pace at the same time.
PCB chairman Najam Sethi had also revealed that he has penned a trilateral series between Pakistan, West Indies and Bangladesh in August.
A rain delay reduced Australia's target under the Duckworth-Lewis method to 95 runs in 15 overs, and the hosts scored 96-3 in 11.3 overs for an easy victory.
With the series win, Pakistan became the No. 1 team in the ICC T20I team rankings.
The 31-year old was in top-form in the recently-concluded Syed Mushtaq Ali T20 trophy, smashing an unbeaten hundred and a couple of half-centuries for Uttar Pradesh.
PCB chairman Najam Sethi, however, said the West Indies will tour Pakistan for three T20 matches scheduled for March this year.
Throughout the streak there has been a feeling New Zealand's performances have been inflated by the weakness of its opposition.
Harmanpreet will be assisted by Smriti Mandhana, who has been named as the vice-captain for five-match T20I series against South Africa.
During the first T20I against New Zealand in Wellington, Pakistan captain Sarfaraz Ahmed did something for which he gets badly trolled on the social media.
Pakistan slumped to 38/6, flirting with its lowest-ever T20 score of 74, before being dismissed for 105 as it batted first on a sub-standard drop-in pitch.
Hit on the head by a wayward throw from New Zealand's Colin Munro while taking a run in the match, Malik also couldn't play the last two ODIs of the five-match series which Pakistan lost 5-0.
Recently appointed as head coach of Indian Premier League franchise Delhi Daredevils, Ponting is an IPL-title-winning coach with Mumbai Indians and follows the KFC Big Bash League closely in his role as a commentator.
New Zealand are now standing on 126 points, while the T20 world champions Windies have dropped from 120 points to 115 points in the fifth position.
With this hundred, Munro surpassed West Indies' Chris Gayle and Evin Lewis, India's Rohit Sharma and New Zealand's Brendon McCullum, who all have two centuries in T20 internationals against their name.
New Zealand, who won the first match by 47 runs, were 102/4 when the rain became heavy enough to force the players to leave the field.
"Left-handed batsman Shimron Hetmyer will replace all-rounder Kieron Pollard, who is unavailable due to personal reasons," West Indies Cricket Board said in a statement.
The T20I World Champions had a disastrous tour so far as they have suffered heavy defeats at the hands of New Zealand in both the Test (0-2) and the One-Day International (0-3) series.
India produced a dominant performance to hammer Sri Lanka by five wickets in the third and final Twenty20 International (T20I) and win the three-match series 3-0 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday.
Skipper Rohit Sharma praised his young team-mates for the way they performed in the series.
India beat Sri Lanka by five wickets in the third and final Twenty20 international in Mumbai on Sunday to complete the 3-0 whitewash.
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