{"id":66044,"date":"2025-02-20T12:11:25","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T07:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=66044"},"modified":"2025-02-20T13:09:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T08:09:21","slug":"injured-fakhar-zaman-ruled-out-of-champions-trophy-pcb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/featured\/injured-fakhar-zaman-ruled-out-of-champions-trophy-pcb\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured Fakhar Zaman ruled out of Champions Trophy: PCB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: In a major blow ahead of the game against India, opener Fakhar Zaman has been ruled out of the remainder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/new-zealand-beats-pakistan-by-60-runs-in-icc-champions-trophy-opener\/\">ICC Champions Trophy 2025<\/a> due to a serious injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said that Fakhar Zaman was not accompanying the squad to Dubai for the next match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fakhar Zaman&#8217;s injury is of a serious nature. He will not be able to play the remainder of the tournament,&#8221; the PCB said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The left-handed batter sustained a muscular sprain during the opening match against New Zealand at Karachi&#8217;s National Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0incident occurred when Zaman awkwardly fell while fielding in the first over of the match, leading to his immediate withdrawal from the match.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s next match will be a high-stakes clash against India on Sunday in Dubai after India refused to travel to Pakistan to play their matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: In a major blow ahead of the game against India, opener Fakhar Zaman has been ruled out of the remainder of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 due to a serious injury. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said that Fakhar Zaman was not accompanying the squad to Dubai for the next match. &#8220;Fakhar Zaman&#8217;s injury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":66045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,6],"tags":[1250,13521],"class_list":["post-66044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-fakhar-zaman","tag-champions-trophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66044","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66053,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66044\/revisions\/66053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}