{"id":64209,"date":"2025-01-31T18:54:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T13:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=64209"},"modified":"2025-01-31T19:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T14:07:53","slug":"pcb-announce-squad-for-champions-trophy-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pcb-announce-squad-for-champions-trophy-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"PCB announce squad for Champions Trophy 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board<\/a> (PCB) has <\/span>announced the 15-member Pakistan squad for the Champions Trophy 2025<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to\u00a0<\/span>be<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>staged<\/span>\u00a0in Pakistan from February 19 to March 9. <\/span><\/p>\n

The same squad will\u00a0<\/span>represent<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>country\u00a0<\/span>in a tri-nation ODI series<\/a> against New Zealand and South Africa,\u00a0<\/span>that<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>will<\/span>\u00a0be held in Karachi and Lahore.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The <\/span>new<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>squad\u00a0<\/span>carries<\/span>\u00a0four changes from the last ODI series\u00a0<\/span>against South Africa.\u00a0<\/span>Experienced<\/span> batters<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>such<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>as<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Fakhar Zaman<\/span>, all rounder <\/span>Faheem<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Ashraf<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Khushdil Shah,\u00a0<\/span>and\u00a0<\/span>Saud<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Shakeel<\/span>\u00a0have\u00a0<\/span>replaced\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>names<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>of<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Abdullah<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Shafique<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Muhammad<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Irfan Khan<\/span>,\u00a0<\/span>Saim<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Ayub<\/span>, and\u00a0<\/span>Sufyan<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Maqeem<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The squad, to be captained by Mohammad Rizwan with Salman Ali Agha as vice-captain, includes three members from the 2017 title-winning side ,Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf and Fakhar Zaman.<\/p>\n

Babar and Fakhar, along with Haris Rauf, Shaheen Shah Afridi and Saud Shakeel had also featured in the last 50-over ICC event, the ICC Men\u2019s 50-over Cricket World Cup 2023.<\/p>\n

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Obviously,\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>presence<\/span>\u00a0of these\u00a0<\/span>newly<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>added\u00a0<\/span>players\u00a0<\/span>would<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>definitely<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>bring\u00a0<\/span>different<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>dynamics<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>into<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>the team, which the fans <\/span>shall<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>look<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>forward<\/span>\u00a0to\u00a0<\/span>seeing<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>these<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>coming<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>tournaments<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>as<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>well<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With the Champions Trophy 2025 and the tri-nation ODI series just around the corner, the Pakistan squad will be looking to make a strong impression and bring home some exciting victories.<\/p>\n

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LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced the 15-member Pakistan squad for the Champions Trophy 2025\u00a0to\u00a0be\u00a0staged\u00a0in Pakistan from February 19 to March 9. The same squad will\u00a0represent\u00a0the\u00a0country\u00a0in a tri-nation ODI series against New Zealand and South Africa,\u00a0that\u00a0will\u00a0be held in Karachi and Lahore.\u00a0 The new\u00a0squad\u00a0carries\u00a0four changes from the last ODI series\u00a0against South Africa.\u00a0Experienced batters\u00a0such\u00a0as\u00a0Fakhar Zaman, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":39830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15707,364],"class_list":["post-64209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-champions-trophy-2025","tag-pcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64209","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64214,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64209\/revisions\/64214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}