{"id":87913,"date":"2026-02-16T21:51:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/87913\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T21:51:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T21:51:23","slug":"t20-world-cup-2026-pakistan-to-drop-under-fire-babar-azam-shaheen-shah-afridi-from-namibia-match-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/87913\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup 2026: Pakistan To Drop Under-Fire Babar Azam, Shaheen Shah Afridi From Namibia Match \u2013 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"w-100 story-hero-img lazy-load\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26038253041036.jpg\"   alt=\"ICC T20 World Cup 2026 Pakistan vs Namibia Babar Azam Shaheen Shah Afridi to be dropped report\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"w-100 story-hero-img\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26038253041036.jpg\"   alt=\"ICC T20 World Cup 2026 Pakistan vs Namibia Babar Azam Shaheen Shah Afridi to be dropped report\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Shaheen Shah Afridi, left. celebrates with teammate Babar Azam the wicket of Netherlands&#8217; Roelof van der Merwe during the T20 World Cup cricket match between Netherlands and Pakistan in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026. | Photo: AP\/Eranga Jayawardena<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s Shaheen Shah Afridi, left. celebrates with teammate Babar Azam the wicket of Netherlands&#8217; Roelof van der Merwe during the T20 World Cup cricket match between Netherlands and Pakistan in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2026. | Photo: AP\/Eranga Jayawardena<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"icon-img-ht lazy-load\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/info_icon.png\" alt=\"info_icon\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"icon-img-ht\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/info_icon.png\" alt=\"info_icon\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan&#8217;s Shaheen Shah Afridi, left. celebrates with teammate Babar Azam the wicket of Netherlands&#8217; Roelof van der Merwe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[50654,50339,50657,50656,197,912,102,50655,28314,50660,50659,22825,50661,49860,50662,50653,50658,1232],"class_list":{"0":"post-87913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-namibia","8":"tag-babar-azam","9":"tag-babar-azam-dropped","10":"tag-babar-azam-dropped-from-t20","11":"tag-babar-azam-dropped-from-team","12":"tag-cricket-news","13":"tag-icc-t20-world-cup-2026","14":"tag-namibia","15":"tag-pak-vs-nam","16":"tag-pakistan-cricket-news","17":"tag-pakistan-cricket-news-latest","18":"tag-pakistan-cricket-news-today","19":"tag-pakistan-cricket-team","20":"tag-pakistan-t20-world-cup-2026","21":"tag-pakistan-vs-namibia","22":"tag-pakistan-vs-namibia-t20","23":"tag-shaheen-shah-afridi","24":"tag-shaheen-shah-afridi-dropped","25":"tag-t20-world-cup-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@africa\/116082526344848705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}