{"id":1156282,"date":"2026-08-18T21:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1156282\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T21:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T21:02:26","slug":"babar-to-miss-first-england-test-pakistan-name-new-captain-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1156282\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar to miss first England Test, Pakistan name new captain | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After six outings in the ongoing cycle, Pakistan have won two Tests and lost four, and have a 22.22 PCT.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/england-unveil-squad-for-first-two-tests-against-pakistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">England<\/a>, on the other hand, are seventh in the standings and have won only four of the 13 Tests they have played in this cycle.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts were last in action during the home series against New Zealand, which the visitors sealed 2-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pakistan Test squad:<\/strong>\u00a0Babar Azam (c), Aamir Jamal, Abdullah Shafique, Ali Usman, Azan Awais, Imam-ul-Haq, Khurram Shahzad, Mohammad Abbas, Mohammad Ali, Mohammad Rizwan, Muhammad Awais Zafar, Muhammad Ghazi Ghori, Sajid Khan, Salman Ali Agha, Saud Shakeel, Shan Masood, Ubaid Shah\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Series schedule<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Test:<\/strong>\u00a0August 19\u201323, Headingley<br \/><strong>Second Test<\/strong>: August 27\u201331, Lord&#8217;s<br \/><strong>Third Test:<\/strong>\u00a0September 9\u201313, Edgbaston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After six outings in the ongoing cycle, Pakistan have won two Tests and lost four, and have a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1156283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,145387,145385,56086,145400,145396,145399,145397,11096,145398,145395,145401,145407,145406,145388,2192,145405,145390,145389,30566,145393,145394,145403,79,145402,145404,145392,145386,145391,16,15],"class_list":["post-1156282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1156283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}