{"id":37784,"date":"2023-12-20T17:11:04","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T17:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/pacer-khurram-shahzad-in-doubt-for-second-test-against-australia\/"},"modified":"2023-12-20T17:11:04","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T17:11:04","slug":"pacer-khurram-shahzad-in-doubt-for-second-test-against-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/pacer-khurram-shahzad-in-doubt-for-second-test-against-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacer Khurram Shahzad in doubt for second Test against Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Fast bowler Khurram Shahzad is in doubt for the second Test against Australia after complaining of discomfort in his left side during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1798605\">series-opener<\/a> in Perth.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Wednesday he had been sent for an MRI scan following the tourists\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1798605\">360-run loss<\/a> and that the team\u2019s medical panel would assess the result.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old took five wickets on his debut at Perth Stadium in a raw pace unit.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan are already depleted in attack, with injured quick Naseem Shah sidelined and Haris Rauf having opted out of the series to play in Australia\u2019s T20 Big Bash League.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1798745\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The Green Shirts\u2019 unlikely bid to win their first Test in Australia since 1995 was left in tatters by Nathan Lyon and the home side\u2019s formidable pace attack, who wrapped up the game inside four days.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing 450 for victory, the visitors succumbed meekly with Lyon taking 2-14. Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood both grabbed three wickets each.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat start to the summer, everything fell into place. We\u2019ve played a lot of cricket, so the build-up was very chilled and relaxed,\u201d Australia captain Pat Cummins had said after the match. \u201cNo hiccups this week, it\u2019s all gone to plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c500 Test wickets around the world is huge,\u201d he added of Lyon. \u201cCouldn\u2019t be happier for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Australia had declared on day four at 233-5 after Pakistan were dismissed for 271 in their first innings, in reply to the hosts\u2019 487.<\/p>\n<p>The second Test starts on Tuesday (Dec 26) at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fast bowler Khurram Shahzad is in doubt for the second Test against Australia after complaining of discomfort in his left side during the series-opener in Perth. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Wednesday he had been sent for an MRI scan following the tourists\u2019 360-run loss and that the team\u2019s medical panel would assess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2023\/12\/20112123f902b78.jpg?r=112754","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}