{"id":1776,"date":"2021-01-15T18:01:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T12:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=85703"},"modified":"2021-01-15T18:01:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T12:31:02","slug":"babar-azam-to-lead-pakistan-against-upcoming-visit-of-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/babar-azam-to-lead-pakistan-against-upcoming-visit-of-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar Azam to lead Pakistan against upcoming visit of South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s tour of Pakistan: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has declared their Test squad that will face South Africa. Pakistan will play a two-match test series against the mighty proteas. Babar Azam a prolific run-scorer for Pakistan, has been declared the captain. While Mohammed Rizwan has been declared the vice-captain.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan will play a two-match series in which kick-offs on January 26 in Karachi. Shan Masood, Haris Sohail and Mohammad Abbas are three players dropped from the squad.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Babar Azam is back to take over as Pakistan captain \ud83e\udde2<\/p>\n<p>Shan Masood, Haris Sohail and Mohammad Abbas have all been dropped for Pakistan\u2019s two-match Test series against South Africa which kicks off in Karachi on January 26th \ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qKiBgrEunX\">pic.twitter.com\/qKiBgrEunX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPNcricinfo (@ESPNcricinfo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNcricinfo\/status\/1350037303834468352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s tour of Pakistan: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has declared their Test squad that will face South Africa. Pakistan\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":24881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[298,1137],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-babar-azam","tag-pakistan-cricket-board"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}