{"id":12226,"date":"2022-11-21T13:15:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T13:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=12226"},"modified":"2022-11-21T13:15:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T13:15:57","slug":"pakistan-to-play-england-test-series-sans-shaheen-afridi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-to-play-england-test-series-sans-shaheen-afridi\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to play England Test series sans Shaheen Afridi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan to play England Test series sans Shaheen Afridi. Pakistan pacer<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iShaheenAfridi\"> Shaheen Shah Afridi<\/a> has been ruled out of the Green Shirts&#8217; Test series against England as he undergoes rehabilitation following an appendicitis surgery and injury.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan cricket team&#8217;s Chief Selector Mohammad Wasim on Monday announced the national squad for the home Test series against England, starting December 1.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealPCB\/status\/1594582941291659265?s=20&#038;t=QB0wpehTe22OG-KYhVF7Mg<\/p>\n<p>The pace bowling spearhead Shaheen has been ruled out of the three-match Test series following an appendectomy \u2014 surgery to remove the appendix when it is infected \u2014 at a local hospital on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/iShaheenAfridi\/status\/1594280557436805121?s=20&#038;t=APFUibkWIxlpJtZ4MH7rgw<\/p>\n<p>The absence of Shaheen has dealt a huge blow to the Pakistani side, who rely massively on the young bowler to lead the team&#8217;s pace attack.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/how-can-pcb-leave-shaheen-alone-ramiz-raja-reacts-to-shahid-afridis-statement.html\">\u2018How can PCB leave Shaheen alone?\u2019 Ramiz Raja reacts to Shahid Afridi\u2019s statement<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The star pacer&#8217;s availability in the 18-member squad was already doubful due to a knee injury, which he suffered during the T20 World Cup 2022 final against England on November 13. Then, he also underwent appendicitis surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Shaheen, Pakistan&#8217;s strike bowler in all formats of the game, has 99 Test, 62 ODI, and 58 T20 international wickets from a career that started in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Squad<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Babar Azam (c), Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Azhar Ali, Faheem Ashraf, Haris Rauf, Imam-ul-Haq, Mohammad Nawaz, Wasim Jr, Naseem Shah, Nauman Ali, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfaraz Ahmed, Saud Shakeel, Shan Masood and Zahid Mehmood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan to play England Test series sans Shaheen Afridi. Pakistan pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi has been ruled out of the Green Shirts&#8217; Test series against England as he undergoes rehabilitation following an appendicitis surgery and injury. Pakistan cricket team&#8217;s Chief Selector Mohammad Wasim on Monday announced the national squad for the home Test series against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":12229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[3208,2863,6931,1626,138,364],"class_list":["post-12226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports","tag-abdullah-shafique","tag-imam-ul-haq","tag-mohammad-nawaz","tag-shaheen-shah-afridi","tag-pakistan","tag-pcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226","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=12226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}