{"id":4268,"date":"2021-11-25T09:23:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2021-11-25T09:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T09:23:04","slug":"pak-vs-ban-pakistan-announce-12-man-squad-for-first-test-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pak-vs-ban-pakistan-announce-12-man-squad-for-first-test-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Pak vs Ban: Pakistan announce 12-man squad for first Test match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday announced the 12-man squad for the first Test match against Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Men in Green will clash with hosts Bangladesh in Chittagong&#8217;s Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Friday, November 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here is the squad, led by skipper Babar Azam:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Babar Azam &#8211; Captain<\/li>\n<li>Mohammad Rizwan &#8211; Vice captain (wicketkeeper)<\/li>\n<li>Abdullah Shafique<\/li>\n<li>Abid Ali<\/li>\n<li>Azhar Ali<\/li>\n<li>Faheem Ashraf<\/li>\n<li>Fawad Alam<\/li>\n<li>Hasan Ali<\/li>\n<li>Imam-ul-Haq<\/li>\n<li>Nauman Ali<\/li>\n<li>Sajid Khan<\/li>\n<li>Shaheen Shah Afridi<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"\">&#8220;Our team is impressive and this time around, will make a good impression in the Test Championship,&#8221; said skipper Babar Azam during a press conference today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Azam acknowledged that the team had had less time to adjust to Test cricket after months of playing T20 matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Pakistani skipper said his team was not taking Bangladesh lightly. &#8220;Conditions here are different [than Pakistan is used to] hence we cannot take Bangladesh lightly,&#8221; he said. &#8220;These conditions are a bit difficult and batters have to stick around on the crease to get settled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Babar Azam said the Men in Green will have to play with focus and patience to do well in the series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The two sides will follow up the first Test match with another on Saturday, December 4 at the Sher-e-Bangla Cricket Stadium Mirpur, Dhaka.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Pakistan will be brimming with confidence when they take the field tomorrow against Bangladesh. The visitors completed a 3-0 whitewash over the hosts last week, winning the third and last T20 match of the series in thrilling fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Thursday announced the 12-man squad for the first Test match against Bangladesh. The Men in Green will clash with hosts Bangladesh in Chittagong&#8217;s Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium on Friday, November 26. Here is the squad, led by skipper Babar Azam: Babar Azam &#8211; Captain Mohammad Rizwan &#8211; Vice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,6],"tags":[474,2759,2863,459,1626],"class_list":["post-4268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-sports","tag-bangladesh","tag-dhaka","tag-imam-ul-haq","tag-pakistan-cricket-board","tag-shaheen-shah-afridi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268","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=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}