{"id":6674,"date":"2020-10-23T08:22:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T08:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/?p=6674"},"modified":"2020-10-23T08:22:20","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T08:22:20","slug":"azhar-ali-to-lose-test-captaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/2020\/10\/23\/azhar-ali-to-lose-test-captaincy\/","title":{"rendered":"Azhar Ali to lose test captaincy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Lahore: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) may relieve Azhar Ali of captaincy of the national test team, sources have told GNN.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan is a strong contender for the post.<br \/>\nTo evaluate whether to retain him as captain for the New Zealand tour, PCB has started reviewing Azhar Ali\u2019s performance.<br \/>\nOther than Rizwan, Babar Azam is also a strong contender, should the position be open. However, it is being discussed that this third captaincy might prove to be too heavy a burden for the batsman who is already the skipper of the T20 and One-Day International formats.<br \/>\nThe final team will be announced in the second week of November.<br \/>\nPakistan is scheduled to play two tests in New Zealand from December 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) may relieve Azhar Ali of captaincy of the national test team, sources have told GNN. Wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan is a strong contender for the post. To evaluate whether to retain him as captain for the New Zealand tour, PCB has started reviewing Azhar Ali\u2019s performance. Other than Rizwan, Babar Azam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6676,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6674\/revisions\/6676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailykashmirpost.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}