{"id":4493,"date":"2026-08-20T13:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desisports.tv\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:33:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:33:44","slug":"babar-azam-out-pakistan-team-faces-big-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desisports.tv\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/babar-azam-out-pakistan-team-faces-big-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar Azam Out! Pakistan Team Faces Big Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Babar Azam has been ruled out of Pakistan\u2019s first Test against England due to a hand injury. Salman Ali Agha is leading Pakistan in Babar\u2019s absence at Headingley. Pakistan struggled with the bat and were bowled out for 171 on Day 1. The latest setback has raised fresh questions about Pakistan\u2019s batting strength without Babar. Watch the full video for the latest Pakistan vs England updates and Babar Azam\u2019s injury news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Babar Azam Out! Pakistan Team Faces Big Trouble\" width=\"790\" height=\"444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ioE70EoZJIA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Babar Azam has been ruled out of Pakistan\u2019s first Test against England due to a hand injury. Salman Ali Agha is leading Pakistan in Babar\u2019s absence at Headingley. Pakistan struggled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desisports.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desisports.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desisports.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desisports.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desisports.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/desisports.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4495,"href":"https:\/\/desisports.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions\/4495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desisports.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desisports.tv\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}