{"id":119261,"date":"2026-07-05T10:37:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/pcb-sacks-shan-masood-hands-test-captaincy-back-to-babar-azam\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T10:37:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T10:37:34","slug":"pcb-sacks-shan-masood-hands-test-captaincy-back-to-babar-azam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/05\/pcb-sacks-shan-masood-hands-test-captaincy-back-to-babar-azam\/","title":{"rendered":"PCB sacks Shan Masood, hands Test captaincy back to Babar Azam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Babar Azam has been reappointed as Pakistan&#8217;s Test captain, leading the team against the West Indies and England in crucial ICC World Test Championship matches.  The squads feature four new faces, offering them a chance to debut.  Pakistan aims to climb the WTC standings from their current ninth position during these upcoming overseas assignments.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babar Azam has been reappointed as Pakistan&#8217;s Test captain, leading the team against the West Indies and England in crucial ICC World Test Championship matches. The squads feature four new faces, offering them a chance to debut. Pakistan aims to climb the WTC standings from their current ninth position during these upcoming overseas assignments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":119262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}