{"id":114844,"date":"2021-08-11T12:36:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T12:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114844"},"modified":"2021-08-11T12:58:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T12:58:03","slug":"england-add-mahmood-to-test-squad-after-broad-injury-scare-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114844","title":{"rendered":"England add Mahmood to Test squad after Broad injury scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Saqib-Mahmood-696x456-1.jpg\" width=\"696\" height=\"456\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>London: Lancashire fast bowler Saqib Mahmood has been added to England\u2019s squad for this week\u2019s second Test against India at Lord\u2019s as cover for the injured Stuart Broad, the England and Wales Cricket Board announced on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mahmood\u2019s call-up came with veteran paceman Broad facing a scan on a calf injury which threatens to rule him out of the second of a five-match series starting on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Broad missed Tuesday\u2019s net session at Lord\u2019s after discomfort in his calf during the warm-ups and will be assessed by medics before a decision is made over his availability for what would be his 150th Test.<\/p>\n<p>Mahmood, 24, is uncapped at Test level but was named man of the series during the recent one-day internationals against Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>He is the second additional call-up to the England squad following the inclusion of off-spinning all-rounder Moeen Ali.<\/p>\n<p>England and India are all square at 0-0 after last week\u2019s rain-marred first Test at Trent Bridge ended in a draw.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/england-india-lose-wtc-points-slow-over-rate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">England, India lose two WTC points for slow over-rate in first Test<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>London: Lancashire fast bowler Saqib Mahmood has been added to England\u2019s squad for this week\u2019s second Test against India at Lord\u2019s as cover for the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114844\" title=\"England add Mahmood to Test squad after Broad injury scare\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114846,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114844\/revisions\/114846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}