{"id":3277,"date":"2026-10-25T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T09:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3277"},"modified":"2026-10-25T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T09:04:12","slug":"pakistan-win-toss-elect-to-field-against-england-in-lahore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3277","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan win toss, elect to field against England in Lahore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Pakistan won the toss and elected to field against England in the fourth match of the tri-nation ODI series at Lahore\u2019s Gaddafi Stadium on Sunday, with a victory securing the hosts a place in the final.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pakistan captain Shaheen Afridi announced two changes to the side, with debutant Razaullah replacing the injured Naseem Shah, who hurt his finger during the warm-up, while Shadab Khan returned to the team in place of Faheem Ashraf.<\/p>\n<p>Shaheen said an additional spinner had been included to strengthen the bowling attack.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan have won their opening two matches against Sri Lanka and England, while England have lost both their games.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s match is being observed as Pink Day to raise awareness about breast cancer, with Pakistan wearing pink kits.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, talking to the media, Shaheen backed out-of-form batters Saim Ayub and Fakhar Zaman, saying the team would not drop either player.<\/p>\n<p>He said Pakistan were benefiting from Saim\u2019s bowling despite his recent struggles with the bat and added that the team would aim to secure another win against England in Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Pakistan Cricket Board released spinner Sufiyan Muqeem from the tri-series squad and named Maaz Sadaqat as his replacement to improve the team\u2019s balance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan won the toss and elected to field against England in the fourth match of the tri-nation ODI series at Lahore\u2019s Gaddafi Stadium on Sunday, with a victory securing the hosts a place in the final. Pakistan captain Shaheen Afridi announced two changes to the side, with debutant Razaullah replacing the injured Naseem Shah, who hurt his finger during the warm-up, while Shadab Khan returned to the team in place of Faheem Ashraf. Shaheen said an additional spinner had been included to strengthen the bowling attack. Pakistan have won their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}