{"id":239183,"date":"2025-10-25T05:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239183\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T05:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T05:01:11","slug":"shan-masood-to-step-down-as-pakistan-test-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/239183\/","title":{"rendered":"Shan Masood to step down as Pakistan Test captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since Masood only plays Tests, which are far and few in between, he will take up the consultant&#8217;s job but will also continue to play. This will be the first instance at the international level that a player will also serve on the board, the report claimed. However, his appointment will be in violation of the PCB Constitution, which does not allow any current player to take a post on the board. They can only take on the role after retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since Masood only plays Tests, which are far and few in between, he will take up the consultant&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,143027,85],"class_list":["post-239183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-ians","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}