{"id":19277,"date":"2023-09-18T18:46:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=19277"},"modified":"2023-09-18T18:46:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T13:46:11","slug":"what-could-be-pakistans-world-cup-2023-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/what-could-be-pakistans-world-cup-2023-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"What could be Pakistan&#8217;s World Cup 2023 squad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan may include Hassan Ali and Abrar Ahmed in the World Cup 2023 squad as the selectors face a Catch-22 situation over Shadab Khan.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is in the process of finalising the 15-member squad for the ICC tournament which will be played in India next month.<\/p>\n<p>The early exit from the Asia Cup 2023 forced the relevant authorities to conduct an in-depth analysis of team combinations.<\/p>\n<p>The team management including chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq and skipper Babar Azam are now considering making changes to the 15-member squad for the mega event.<\/p>\n<p>Sources say that in light of the team&#8217;s recent performance, the chances of Mohammad Haris, Usama Mir, Mohammad Wasim Jnr and Faheem Asraf making the World Cup squad look bleak.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Hassan Ali and right-arm leg-break spinner Abrar Ahmed are likely to be included in the 15-member squad.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, despite the concerns over the selection of out-of-form opener Fakhar Zaman and vice-captain Shadab Khan, the duo are likely to make the team for the mega event.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/babar-azam-crowned-icc-mens-player-of-the-month.html\">Babar Azam crowned ICC Men&#8217;s Player of the Month<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s prospective 15-member-squad for the World Cup might look like this; Babar Azam (c), Imam-ul-Haq, Fakhar Zaman, Abdulla Shafiq, Salman Ali Agha, Iftikhar Ahmed, Saud Shakeel, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Mohammad Nawaz, Shadab Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Haris Rauf, Hassan Ali, Zaman Khan.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s schedule for the ICC World Cup 2023:<\/p>\n<p>October 6 &#8211; vs Netherlands in Hyderabad<\/p>\n<p>October 10 &#8211; vs Sri Lanka in Hyderabad<\/p>\n<p>October 14 &#8211; vs India in Ahmedabad<\/p>\n<p>October 20 &#8211; vs Australia in Bengaluru<\/p>\n<p>October 23 &#8211; vs Afghanistan in Chennai<\/p>\n<p>October 27 &#8211; vs South Africa in Chennai<\/p>\n<p>October 31 &#8211; vs Bangladesh in Kolkata<\/p>\n<p>November 4 &#8211; vs New Zealand Bengaluru (Day match)<\/p>\n<p>November 11 &#8211; vs England in Kolkata<\/p>\n<p>The day matches will start at 10:00am Pakistan Standard Time (PST) while all other matches will be day-night fixtures starting at 01:30pm (PST).<\/p>\n<p>If Pakistan qualify for the semi-finals, they will play in Kolkata.<\/p>\n<p>If India qualify for the semi-finals, they will play in Mumbai unless playing against Pakistan, in which case they will play in Kolkata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan may include Hassan Ali and Abrar Ahmed in the World Cup 2023 squad as the selectors face a Catch-22 situation over Shadab Khan. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is in the process of finalising the 15-member squad for the ICC tournament which will be played in India next month. The early exit from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7850,694,1260,8256,301],"class_list":["post-19277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-abrar-ahmed","tag-babar-azam","tag-hassan-ali","tag-world-cup-2023","tag-icc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19277","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=19277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}