{"id":82327,"date":"2025-08-05T14:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=82327"},"modified":"2025-08-05T14:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T09:21:11","slug":"star-batter-likely-to-return-to-t20i-squad-for-asia-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/star-batter-likely-to-return-to-t20i-squad-for-asia-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Star batter likely to return to T20I squad for Asia Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE:\u00a0 Former Captain and Star batter <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/babar-azam-slides-further-in-new-icc-t20i-ranking\/\">Babar Azam<\/a> is likely to return to the T20 squad, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is considering Azam&#8217;s return amid the injury to Opener Fakhar Zaman.<\/p>\n<p>Fakhar Zaman got injured in the second T20I against the West Indies, resulting in his exclusion from the last match and the Day Internationals (ODI) series.<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to the matter say that Babar Azam&#8217;s return is expected for the Asia Cup and Tri-series.<\/p>\n<p>However, his return shall be based on the performance against the West Indies in the ODI series.<\/p>\n<p>If he manages to impress the selectors with a good performance, then there is a strong chance of his return to the team.<\/p>\n<h2>Pakistan Squad Against West Indies<\/h2>\n<p>Mohammad Rizwan (captain), Salman Ali Agha (vice-captain), Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Hasan Ali, Hasan Nawaz, Hussain Talat, Mohammad Haris (wicket-keeper), Mohammad Nawaz, Naseem Shah, Saim Ayub, Shaheen Shah Afridi, and Sufyan Moqim<\/p>\n<h2>Series schedule:<\/h2>\n<p>8 Aug \u2013 First ODI against West Indies, Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Trinidad &amp; Tobago<\/p>\n<p>10 Aug \u2013 Second ODI against West Indies, Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Trinidad &amp; Tobago<\/p>\n<p>12 Aug \u2013 Third ODI vs West Indies, Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Trinidad &amp; Tobago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE:\u00a0 Former Captain and Star batter Babar Azam is likely to return to the T20 squad, according to media reports. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is considering Azam&#8217;s return amid the injury to Opener Fakhar Zaman. Fakhar Zaman got injured in the second T20I against the West Indies, resulting in his exclusion from the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":35853,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[694,364],"class_list":["post-82327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-babar-azam","tag-pcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82327","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=82327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82328,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82327\/revisions\/82328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}