{"id":4165,"date":"2022-08-22T15:37:33","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T10:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=239691"},"modified":"2022-08-22T15:37:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T10:07:33","slug":"we-are-pleased-that-pakistan-and-england-test-rivalry-will-return-to-our-backyards-claims-pcb-director-zakir-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/we-are-pleased-that-pakistan-and-england-test-rivalry-will-return-to-our-backyards-claims-pcb-director-zakir-khan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe are pleased that Pakistan and England Test rivalry  will return to our backyards,\u201d claims PCB director Zakir Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Cricket Board announced the schedule for England\u2019s Test tour of Pakistan in December of this year. The three-match series, which counts toward the World Test Championship, will be played at Rawalpindi, Multan, and Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>The three Tests will mark the second phase of England\u2019s tour and will mark the first Test series played in Pakistan in 17 years. From September 20 to October 2, seven T20Is that make up the first leg will be contested in Karachi and Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased that Pakistan and England Test rivalry, which has historically produced close and tight matches, will return to our backyards in December. Both the sides have evolved since they last played in Pakistan in 2005 and have recently been playing entertaining and exciting cricket. I remain confident this series will live up to the expectations of the global cricket fans who want to watch and enjoy competitive and thrilling matches,\u201d said Zakir Khan, PCB Director \u2013 International Cricket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pakistan Cricket Board announced the schedule for England\u2019s Test tour of Pakistan in December of this year. The three-match\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-test"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}