{"id":66059,"date":"2025-02-20T15:09:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=66059"},"modified":"2025-02-20T15:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:09:31","slug":"imam-ul-haq-replaces-injured-fakhar-in-champions-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/imam-ul-haq-replaces-injured-fakhar-in-champions-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Imam-ul-Haq replaces injured Fakhar in Champions Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Imam-ul-Haq has been included as a replacement for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/featured\/injured-fakhar-zaman-ruled-out-of-champions-trophy-pcb\/\">Fakhar Zaman<\/a> in Pakistan&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/new-zealand-beats-pakistan-by-60-runs-in-icc-champions-trophy-opener\/\">Champions Trophy<\/a> squad after the latter was ruled out due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>In a media release, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said that the\u00a0Event Technical Committee of the ICC Men\u2019s Champions Trophy has approved Imam-ul-Haq&#8217;s inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Haq, 29, was named as a replacement after Fakhar received an oblique injury and was denied by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) medical team to play the remainder of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fakhar Zaman\u2019s injury is of a serious nature. He will not accompany the squad to Dubai for the next match,&#8221; the PCB said in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Zaman, a hero of the Champions Trophy 2017 final, shared a heartfelt message on social media after being excluded from the ongoing tournament.<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r\">\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r r-1s2bzr4\">\n<div id=\"id__o7tg7lxvqf\" class=\"css-146c3p1 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7\" dir=\"auto\" lang=\"en\" data-testid=\"tweetText\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">&#8220;Representing Pakistan on the biggest stage is an honour and dream of every cricketer in this country. I have been privileged enough to represent Pakistan multiple times with pride,&#8221; he wrote on X.<\/span><\/div>\n<p dir=\"auto\" lang=\"en\" data-testid=\"tweetText\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">&#8220;Unfortunately I\u2019m now out of ICC Champions Trophy 2025 but surely Allah is the best planner. Grateful for the opportunity. I will be backing our boys in green from home. This is only just the beginning, the comeback will be stronger than the setback,&#8221; the fierce opening batter added.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ds-flex ds-items-center\">\n<p>On the other hand, Imam, who has not played international cricket since 2023, will join Green Shirts ahead of their next game against India on February 23 in Dubai.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ds-flex ds-items-center\">He does, however, have a stellar record as an opener, averaging 48.27 with nine ODI centuries from 72 ODIs.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<header class=\"\">\n<div class=\"ds-text-compact-l ds-font-regular ds-mb-3 ds-text-typo-mid2\"><\/div>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Imam-ul-Haq has been included as a replacement for Fakhar Zaman in Pakistan&#8217;s Champions Trophy squad after the latter was ruled out due to injury. In a media release, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said that the\u00a0Event Technical Committee of the ICC Men\u2019s Champions Trophy has approved Imam-ul-Haq&#8217;s inclusion. Haq, 29, was named as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":66061,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,6],"tags":[1250,2863,13521],"class_list":["post-66059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-fakhar-zaman","tag-imam-ul-haq","tag-champions-trophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66059","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=66059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66062,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66059\/revisions\/66062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}