{"id":10699,"date":"2022-09-15T12:54:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T12:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=10699"},"modified":"2022-09-15T12:56:58","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T12:56:58","slug":"pcb-announces-pakistans-squad-for-t20-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pcb-announces-pakistans-squad-for-t20-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"PCB announces Pakistan&#8217;s squad for T20 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PCB announces Pakistan&#8217;s squad for T20 World Cup. Pakistan&#8217;s chief selector Mohammad Wasim Thursday announced a 15-member squad for next month&#8217;s T20 World Cup, with Haider Ali coming back to the side.<\/p>\n<p>The same squad will also be representing Pakistan in the upcoming New Zealand series.<\/p>\n<p>Shan Masood got his maiden T20I call-up whereas Fakhar Zaman was dropped from the main squad. On Wednesday, former Test captain Rashid Latif claimed that Fakhar has sustained a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/saqlain-backs-babar-rizwan-after-asia-cup-loss.html\">Saqlain backs Babar &amp; Rizwan after Asia Cup loss<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShahnawazDahani\">Shahnawaz Dahani<\/a> was also ruled out from the main squad of the T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Both Shahnawaz and Fakhar have been named among travelling reserves.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Wasim Jr and Shaheen Shah Afridi \u2014 who were ruled out of T20 Asia Cup 2022 due to injury \u2014 have returned to the mega event&#8217;s squad.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan will travel to New Zealand first to play tri-nation series involving the home side and Bangladesh. The T20 World Cup 2022 will be played in October-November in Australia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Squad:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Babar Azam (captain), Shadab Khan, Asif Ali, Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Waseem Jnr, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood, Usman Qadir<\/p>\n<p><strong>Travelling reserves:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Haris, Shahnawaz Dahani<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s schedule in T20 WC 2022<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warm-up matches<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>17 Oct &#8211; England v Pakistan, The Gabba, 6pm (PST)<\/p>\n<p>19 Oct &#8211; Afghanistan v Pakistan, The Gabba , 1pm (PST)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main Matches<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>23 Oct &#8211; Pakistan vs India, Melbourne Cricket Ground, 1pm (PST)<\/p>\n<p>27 Oct &#8211; Pakistan vs Winner Group B, Perth Stadium, 4pm (PST)<\/p>\n<p>30 Oct &#8211; Pakistan vs Runner-up Group A, Perth Stadium, 12pm (PST)<\/p>\n<p>3 Nov &#8211; Pakistan vs South Africa, Sydney Cricket Ground, 1pm (PST)<\/p>\n<p>6 Nov &#8211; Pakistan vs Bangladesh, Adelaide Oval, 9pm (PST)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PCB announces Pakistan&#8217;s squad for T20 World Cup. Pakistan&#8217;s chief selector Mohammad Wasim Thursday announced a 15-member squad for next month&#8217;s T20 World Cup, with Haider Ali coming back to the side. The same squad will also be representing Pakistan in the upcoming New Zealand series. Shan Masood got his maiden T20I call-up whereas Fakhar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[694,474,6800,1654,1252,1254,1251,364],"class_list":["post-10699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","tag-babar-azam","tag-bangladesh","tag-khushdil-shah","tag-mohammad-hasnain","tag-mohammad-rizwan","tag-t20-world-cup","tag-usman-qadir","tag-pcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}