Babar Azam has been recalled to Pakistan’s Test squad ahead of the series against South Africa, set to begin on December 26 at SuperSport Park, Centurion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The right-handed batsman, who has not featured in the Test team since October 2024 due to a prolonged poor run of form, will replace out-of-form opener Abdullah Shafique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Babar, who is just three runs away from reaching the 4,000-run milestone in Test cricket, has been struggling for consistency in the longest format since his last significant score of 161 runs against New Zealand in December 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the past 18 Test innings, he has managed only 366 runs, with his best score during this period being 41 runs in the second innings against Australia in Melbourne, December 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sources confirmed that Babar, despite these struggles, will return to bat at number three in the lineup. This marks a significant development, given that the Pakistan team management and selection committee have decided to include him in the squad for the first Test against South Africa, following his solid performances in the recent ODI series<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Babar Azam has been recalled to Pakistan’s Test squad ahead of the series against South Africa, set to begin on December 26 at SuperSport Park, Centurion. The right-handed batsman, who has not featured in the Test team since October 2024 due to a prolonged poor run of form, will replace out-of-form opener Abdullah Shafique. Babar,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-example-3","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4316,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4312\/revisions\/4316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}