{"id":118991,"date":"2026-07-25T09:55:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=118991"},"modified":"2026-07-25T10:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T05:51:25","slug":"abdullah-fazal-ruled-out-of-england-west-indies-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/abdullah-fazal-ruled-out-of-england-west-indies-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Abdullah Fazal ruled out of England, West Indies Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TRINIDAD: Pakistan&#8217;s rising Test opener Abdullah Fazal has been ruled out of the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/schedule-announced-for-pakistan-west-indies-test-series\/\">Test series<\/a> against the West Indies and England due to a lower back injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said the injury occurred on Thursday during a training session at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Trinidad, where the first Test match against the West Indies will be played.<\/p>\n<p>After an MRI scan and medical examination, the team&#8217;s medical panel has advised him to undergo rehabilitation, while no decision has been made yet regarding a replacement player.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old Abdullah Fazal made his Test debut against Bangladesh in May and scored half-centuries in both innings of his first match.<\/p>\n<p>He also remained not out in both innings in the warm-up match against the West Indies Select XI, scoring 50 and 48 runs respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In his absence, middle-order batsman Owais Zafar&#8217;s Test debut prospects have brightened, while Imam-ul-Haq is expected to be part of the opening pair again.<\/p>\n<p>National captain Babar Azam wished Abdullah Fazal a speedy recovery, saying that he is a talented and confident young player whose exclusion from the team is a big loss for Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRINIDAD: Pakistan&#8217;s rising Test opener Abdullah Fazal has been ruled out of the upcoming Test series against the West Indies and England due to a lower back injury. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said the injury occurred on Thursday during a training session at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy in Trinidad, where the first Test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":118992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43940,43941],"class_list":["post-118991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-abdullah-fazal","tag-england-and-west-indies-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118991","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118993,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118991\/revisions\/118993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}