{"id":89601,"date":"2025-10-28T19:40:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T14:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=89601"},"modified":"2025-10-28T20:15:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:15:47","slug":"pakistan-vs-south-africa-green-shirts-win-toss-opt-to-field-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-vs-south-africa-green-shirts-win-toss-opt-to-field-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan vs South Africa: Green Shirts win toss, opt to field first"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Pakistan has won the toss and decided to field first against <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pcb-reveals-pink-themed-kit-for-first-south-africa-t20i\/\">South Africa<\/a> in the first T20I of a three-match series at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>National team captain Salman Agha said that it is not known at what score the opposing team can be stopped in Pindi.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Babar Azam and Naseem Shah have been match winners in the past and will be in the future as well.<\/p>\n<p>The team includes two all-rounders along with Abrar Ahmed and two fast bowlers.<\/p>\n<p>The national team is led by Salman Ali Agha in the first T20 match against South Africa, while Saim Ayub, Sahibzada Farhan, Babar Azam, Hassan Nawaz, Usman Khan, Muhammad Nawaz, Faheem Ashraf, Shaheen Afridi, Naseem Shah, and Abrar Ahmed are in the team.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa captain Donovan Ferreira said that, having won the toss, we would have fielded first. Tony de Zorzi is making his T20 debut in today&#8217;s match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI: Pakistan has won the toss and decided to field first against South Africa in the first T20I of a three-match series at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium on Tuesday. National team captain Salman Agha said that it is not known at what score the opposing team can be stopped in Pindi. He said that Babar Azam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":89603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[24906],"class_list":["post-89601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-pakistan-vs-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89601","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=89601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89612,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89601\/revisions\/89612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}