{"id":53,"date":"2026-05-07T18:41:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40420081\/babar-azam-ruled-out-of-first-test-against-bangladesh-due-to-knee-injury"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T18:41:05","slug":"e3dfd01a4cd3ad30bf66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Babar Azam ruled out of first Test against Bangladesh due to knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s star batter Babar Azam has been ruled out of the first Test against Bangladesh, which is set to begin tomorrow at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka.<br \/>\nThe Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed that Azam will not be part of the Playing XI due to a left-knee injury.<br \/>\nThe board released a statement saying, \u201cPakistan batter Babar Azam will not be available for the first Test match against Bangladesh due to an injury in his left knee.\u201d<br \/>\nThe statement also mentioned that his injury is<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brecorder.com\/news\/40420081\/babar-azam-ruled-out-of-first-test-against-bangladesh-due-to-knee-injury\">Read original at Business Recorder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan\u2019s star batter Babar Azam has been ruled out of the first Test against Bangladesh, which is set to begin tomorrow at the Shere Bangla National Stadium in Dhaka.<br \/>\nThe Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailypakistannews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}