{"id":43164,"date":"2018-09-28T11:42:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T11:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=43164"},"modified":"2018-09-28T11:42:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T11:42:12","slug":"pakistan-drop-mohammad-amir-for-test-series-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/pakistan-drop-mohammad-amir-for-test-series-against-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan drop Mohammad Amir for Test series against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has dropped fast bowler Mohammad Amir while wicketkeeper-batsman Mohmad Rizwan is recalled for next month\u2019s Test series against Australia in the United Arab Emirates. \u201cThe team has been selected keeping in mind the conditions of the UAE,\u201d chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq said on Thursday. Left-arm paceman Amir has taken 56 wickets in 19 Tests since returning in 2016 from a five-year spot-fixing ban.<\/p>\n<p>Rizwan has played just one test against New Zealand in 2016 but is in as backup for captain Sarfraz Ahmed. The selectors have recalled left-arm fast bowler Wahab Riaz after he was dropped for this year\u2019s one-off test against Ireland and then ignored for the series in England.<\/p>\n<p>Left-arm seamer Mir Hamza was the only uncapped player named. He has taken 278 wickets in 56 first-class matches. Leg-spinners Yasir Shah and Shadab Khan were also included in the 17-strong squad, with the wickets likely to turn in the UAE.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has dropped fast bowler Mohammad Amir while wicketkeeper-batsman Mohmad Rizwan is recalled for next month\u2019s Test series against Australia in the United Arab Emirates. \u201cThe team has been selected keeping in mind the conditions of the UAE,\u201d chief selector Inzamam-ul-Haq said on Thursday. Left-arm paceman Amir has taken 56 wickets in 19 Tests since [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43166,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43164\/revisions\/43166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}