{"id":822688,"date":"2026-07-25T09:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822688\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T09:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:36:13","slug":"pakistan-opener-ruled-out-of-test-series-against-west-indies-icc-world-test-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/822688\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan opener ruled out of Test series against West Indies | ICC World Test Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan opener Abdullah Fazal has been ruled out of the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/world-test-championship\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ICC World Test Championship 2025-27<\/a> series against the West Indies and England after suffering a lower back injury during a training session in Tarouba.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old sustained the injury while training at the Brian Lara Cricket Academy, the venue for the opening Test against the West Indies.<\/p>\n<p>An MRI scan and subsequent medical assessment confirmed he will require a period of rehabilitation, with no replacement named yet.<\/p>\n<p>Fazal&#8217;s absence is a setback for Pakistan after the youngster made an impressive start to his Test career.<\/p>\n<p>He announced himself with half-centuries in both innings on debut against Bangladesh in May, finishing as Pakistan&#8217;s leading run-scorer in the match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan opener Abdullah Fazal has been ruled out of the upcoming ICC World Test Championship 2025-27 series against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,95836,95846,95842,95845,95843,1950,95844,95841,95847,95853,95852,95833,7301,95851,95835,95834,90626,95839,95840,95849,85,95848,95850,95838,95831,95837],"class_list":["post-822688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822688","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=822688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}