{"id":51163,"date":"2024-10-04T23:37:31","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T18:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=51163"},"modified":"2024-10-04T23:37:31","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T18:37:31","slug":"ben-stokes-set-to-miss-first-test-match-against-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/ben-stokes-set-to-miss-first-test-match-against-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben stokes set to miss first test match against Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MULTAN: England cricket team captain <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/sky-sports-secures-last-minute-deal-for-england-test-tour-of-pakistan\/\">Ben Stokes<\/a>&#8216; participation in the first Test match against Pakistan is yet to be decided.<\/p>\n<p>According to the media reports, Stokes&#8217; participation in the Test match against Pakistan starting from October 7 in Multan is uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports suggested that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pcb-announces-ticket-prices-for-pakistan-vs-england-test-series\/\">England<\/a> will have to wait longer for Stokes&#8217; availability for the first Test and that Ole Pope will lead the team in his absence.<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, England announce their playing XI two days before a Test match and the XI against Pakistan is expected to be announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, former England captain Nasir Hussain said that it would be foolish to think that England can beat Pakistan easily.<\/p>\n<p>It is noteworthy that Ben Stokes suffered a hamstring injury during the Hundred League due to which he could not play in the Test series against Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>England batsman Zac Crowley said he was still unsure about Stokes&#8217; participation. He appears to be fine and recovering from the injury, but Crowley believes there are still more tests to be done.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the England cricket team has reached Pakistan for the three-match Test series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MULTAN: England cricket team captain Ben Stokes&#8216; participation in the first Test match against Pakistan is yet to be decided. According to the media reports, Stokes&#8217; participation in the Test match against Pakistan starting from October 7 in Multan is uncertain. Media reports suggested that England will have to wait longer for Stokes&#8217; availability for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":51164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7810,507],"class_list":["post-51163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ben-stokes","tag-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51163","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=51163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51165,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51163\/revisions\/51165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}