{"id":4795,"date":"2022-11-30T13:44:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T08:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=260598"},"modified":"2022-11-30T13:44:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T08:14:17","slug":"pak-vs-eng-liam-livingstone-to-debut-in-the-rawalpindi-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/pak-vs-eng-liam-livingstone-to-debut-in-the-rawalpindi-test\/","title":{"rendered":"PAK vs ENG: Liam Livingstone to debut in the Rawalpindi Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The playing XI for the\u00a0\u00a0first Test of a three-match series between England National Cricket Team and Pakistan National Cricket Team has been announced by the visiting side, and 29-year-old batting all-rounder Liam Livingstone is ready to make his debut in the game\u2019s purest version. The opening Test match of England\u2019s tour of Pakistan in 2022 will take place at Rawalpindi from December 1 to 5. The final two games will then be played in Multan (December 9\u201313) and Karachi (December 17\u201321).<\/p>\n<p>Ben Duckett and Liam Livingstone are the two new players in England\u2019s starting lineup for the opening Test against Babar Azam\u2019s team. Livingstone\u2019s ability as a spinner and ball-striker have earned him a spot in the starting XI. While Alex Lees, who was dropped for this tour, has been replaced with Ben Duckett, who will open with Zak Crawley.<\/p>\n<p>England\u2019s playing XI for the first test \u2013 Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Ben Foakes (wk), Liam Livingstone, Jack Leach, Ollie Robinson, Jimmy Anderson.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have named our XI for our first Men's Test against Pakistan!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udde2 A Test debut for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liaml4893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@liaml4893<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\udc4b Welcome back <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenDuckett1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@benduckett1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf5\ud83c\uddf0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PAKvENG?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PAKvENG<\/a> \ud83c\udff4\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc62\udb40\udc65\udb40\udc6e\udb40\udc67\udb40\udc7f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Clellsv9C4\">pic.twitter.com\/Clellsv9C4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 England Cricket (@englandcricket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/englandcricket\/status\/1597711253899808770?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The playing XI for the\u00a0\u00a0first Test of a three-match series between England National Cricket Team and Pakistan National Cricket Team\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[255,3432,1850,3424,1393,216],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ben-stokes","tag-england","tag-liam-livingstone","tag-pakistan","tag-rawalpindi","tag-test"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795","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=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}