{"id":9837,"date":"2020-12-15T08:29:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T09:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=9837"},"modified":"2020-12-15T10:03:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T10:03:30","slug":"babar-azam-shan-masood-named-in-wisdens-test-team-of-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=9837","title":{"rendered":"Babar Azam, Shan Masood named in Wisden\u2019s Test team of year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Shan-Masood-and-Babar-Azam.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Pakistan all-format captain Babar Azam and opening batsman Shan Masood has been named in Wisden&#8217;s 2020 team of the year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The independent voice of cricket Wisden picked a Test XI comprising of top performers from December 11, 2019, to December 10, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Shan Masood&#8217;s three centuries in three consecutive Tests helped him earn\u00a0his place in this team. The 31-year-old smacked career-best 156 against England in August at Manchester. He accumulated 419 runs at an average of 46.55 in six matches.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Babar has the highest average among all batsmen during this period. With an average of 100, he hit 600 runs with three centuries.<\/p>\n<p>England&#8217;s Dom Sibley will open against Shan while New Zealand&#8217;s Kane Williamson, Australia&#8217;s Marnus Labuschagne and England&#8217;s Ben Stokes are the middle-order batters.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s Quinton de Kock has been named as wicket-keeper while Kyle Jamieson, Tim Southee, Stuart Broad and Nathon Lyon have been picked in the bowling department.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Wisden\u2019s Test Team of the Year<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Dom Sibley, Shan Masood, Kane Williamson (C), Marnus Labuschagne, Babar Azam, Ben Stokes, Quinton de Kock (WK), Kyle Jamieson, Stuart Broad, Tim Southee, Nathan Lyon<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/babar-shaheen-included-wisden-under-25-test-xi\/\">Babar Azam, Shaheen Afridi included in Wisden\u2019s Under-25 World Test XI<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Pakistan all-format captain Babar Azam and opening batsman Shan Masood has been named in Wisden&#8217;s 2020 team of the year. The independent voice of <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=9837\" title=\"Babar Azam, Shan Masood named in Wisden\u2019s Test team of year\">[&#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\/9837"}],"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=9837"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9839,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9837\/revisions\/9839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}