{"id":1167609,"date":"2026-08-25T00:57:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1167609\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T00:57:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T00:57:16","slug":"england-alter-squad-for-second-test-against-pakistan-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1167609\/","title":{"rendered":"England alter squad for second Test against Pakistan | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/world-test-championship\/matches\/264906\/england-vs-pakistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">England won the first match of the series at Headingley by an innings and 103 runs<\/a> and will be looking to wrap up the series at Lord&#8217;s and continue their climb up the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/world-test-championship\/standings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">World Test Championship standings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>England currently sit in seventh place on the standings, while Pakistan languish in ninth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>England squad<\/strong>: Joe Root (c), Jofra Archer, Gus Atkinson, Shoaib Bashir, Sonny Baker, Harry Brook, Sam Cook, Jordan Cox, Ben Duckett, Matthew Fisher, Emilio Gay, Dan Lawrence, Ollie Pope, Ollie Robinson, Jamie Smith, Josh Tongue<\/p>\n<p><strong>Series schedule:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>First Test<\/strong>: August 19-23, Headingley (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/world-test-championship\/matches\/264906\/england-vs-pakistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">England won by an innings and 103 runs<\/a>)<br \/><strong>Second Test<\/strong>: August 27-31, Lord&#8217;s<br \/><strong>Third Test:<\/strong> September 9-13, Edgbaston<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England won the first match of the series at Headingley by an innings and 103 runs and will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1167610,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,145387,145385,56086,145400,145396,145399,145397,11096,145398,145395,145401,145407,145406,145388,393,4884,2192,145405,145390,145389,30566,145393,145394,145403,145402,145404,145392,145386,145391,16,15],"class_list":["post-1167609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-england","tag-britain","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-england","tag-great-britain","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-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\/1167609","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=1167609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1167610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}