{"id":875212,"date":"2026-08-31T16:48:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875212\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:48:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T16:48:12","slug":"pakistan-sack-head-coach-and-send-seven-players-home-after-england-test-series-defeat-pakistan-cricket-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/875212\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan sack head coach and send seven players home after England Test series defeat | Pakistan cricket team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pakistan have taken instant and dramatic action after back-to-back thrashings by England, ousting their head coach Sarfaraz Ahmed and sending seven squad members home.<\/p>\n

The tourists lost by an innings in the series opener at Headingley before going down by 194 runs<\/a> at Lord\u2019s as England took an unassailable 2-0 lead.<\/p>\n

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Amid debates over whether it is one of the country\u2019s worst ever sides, the Pakistan Cricket<\/a> Board has provided its own answer ahead of the third Test at Edgbaston \u2013 parachuting white-ball coach Mike Hesson in to replace Sarfaraz and radically changing the playing group.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Pakistan Cricket Board has today announced that seven players have been released from the Test squad following completion of the Lord\u2019s Test,\u201d read a PCB statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe players include Mohammad Rizwan, Imam-ul-Haq, Salman Ali Agha, Ali Usman, Aamir Jamal, Muhammad Awais Zafar and Khurram Shahzad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pakistan have taken instant and dramatic action after back-to-back thrashings by England, ousting their head coach Sarfaraz Ahmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-875212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875212","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=875212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}