{"id":656935,"date":"2026-05-08T04:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656935\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:03:12","slug":"babar-azam-ruled-out-of-1st-bangladesh-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656935\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar Azam ruled out of 1st Bangladesh Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It comes as a huge blow for the visitors considering skipper Shan Masood had <a class=\"text-cbTextLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cricbuzz.com\/cricket-news\/138684\/masood-backs-babar-to-carry-psl-form-into-tests\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently backed<\/a> Azam to carry his PSL form into the Test series against Bangladesh. Azam, who has not scored a Test century since 2022, enjoyed an impressive PSL campaign, amassing 588 runs in 11 matches at an average of 73.02 and a strike rate of 145.90 to help Peshawar Zalmi clinch the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It comes as a huge blow for the visitors considering skipper Shan Masood had recently backed Azam to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[10968,64,63,40807,13047,740,15299,315223,85],"class_list":["post-656935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-10968","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-babar-azam","tag-bangladesh","tag-cricket","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-tour-of-bangladesh","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656935","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=656935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}