{"id":16903,"date":"2021-01-02T08:07:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T09:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=16903"},"modified":"2021-01-02T10:03:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T10:03:10","slug":"injured-babar-azam-to-miss-second-new-zealand-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=16903","title":{"rendered":"Injured Babar Azam to miss second New Zealand Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Babar-.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Christchurch:\u00a0Pakistan captain Babar Azam will miss the second New Zealand Test as he is yet to recover from a thumb injury, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old didn&#8217;t take part in the T20I series and 1st Test at Mount Maunganui. Wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan will continue to lead Pakistan in his absence.<\/p>\n<p>Babar had participated in a training session on Friday but the team&#8217;s management opted to not include him in the second Test after he reported slight pain in his thumb, to avoid any risk of further injury.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Babar had a full-fledged training session yesterday but felt a slight pain in his thumb, following which, the team management has opted against taking any risk,&#8221; the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team Doctor\u00a0Dr Sohail Saleem:\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWe have seen improvement in Babar Azam&#8217;s injury but he is yet to fully recover. He is our captain and the most important batsman in the lineup, so we do not want to take any risk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe medical team is constantly reviewing his injury and we are hopeful he will be available for the home series against South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The second and final Test is scheduled to start tomorrow at Hagley Oval, Christchurch. Blackcaps are 1-0 in the series as they defeated visitors after a tough resistance by 101 runs.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wont-repeat-mistakes-did-first-test-faheem-ashraf\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Won\u2019t repeat mistakes we did in first Test\u2019 Faheem Ashraf<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Christchurch:\u00a0Pakistan captain Babar Azam will miss the second New Zealand Test as he is yet to recover from a thumb injury, the Pakistan Cricket Board <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=16903\" title=\"Injured Babar Azam to miss second New Zealand Test\">[&#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\/16903"}],"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=16903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16905,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903\/revisions\/16905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}