{"id":1901,"date":"2021-01-24T21:21:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T15:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=87996"},"modified":"2021-01-24T22:44:13","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T17:14:13","slug":"pak-vs-sa-pakistan-name-17-man-squad-for-first-test-against-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/pak-vs-sa-pakistan-name-17-man-squad-for-first-test-against-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"PAK vs SA: Pakistan name 17-man squad for first test against South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan selectors have named the 17-player squad for the first Test against South Africa at the former\u2019s home. The squad includes uncapped players like: off-spinner Sajid Khan and left-arm spinner Nauman Ali,\u00a0opener Imran Butt,\u00a0pacers Haris Rauf and Tabish Khan. Rauf played T20 cricket against New Zealand but yet to get his Test cap.<\/p>\n<p>Sarfaraz Ahmed, the former captain and wicketkeeper has also been retained by the selectors. Captain Babar Azam along with head coach will finalise the playing line up before the game.<\/p>\n<p>17-Player Squad:<\/p>\n<p>Openers \u2013 Abid Ali and Imran Butt.<\/p>\n<p>Middle-order batsmen \u2013 Azhar Ali, Babar Azam, Fawad Alam and Saud Shakeel.<\/p>\n<p>All-rounders \u2013 Faheem Ashraf and Mohammad Nawaz.<\/p>\n<p>Wicketkeepers \u2013 Mohammad Rizwan and Sarfaraz Ahmed.<\/p>\n<p>Spinners \u2013 Nauman Ali, Sajid Khan and Yasir Shah.<\/p>\n<p>Fast bowlers \u2013 Haris Rauf, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Tabish Khan.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan selectors have named the 17-player squad for the first Test against South Africa at the former\u2019s home. The\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":25000,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[298,1015,623,254],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-babar-azam","tag-pcb","tag-quinton-de-kock","tag-south-africa"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","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\/133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}