{"id":4205,"date":"2026-11-11T13:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4205"},"modified":"2026-11-11T13:03:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T08:03:48","slug":"pakistan-move-second-sri-lanka-test-to-rawalpindi-from-lahore-due-to-smog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4205","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan move second Sri Lanka Test to Rawalpindi from Lahore due to smog"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The second match in the two-test series between Pakistan and \u200bSri Lanka next week has \u200cbeen moved to Rawalpindi from Lahore due to worsening smog, the Pakistan \u200bCricket Board said on \u200bTuesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rawalpindi is currently hosting the series \u2060opener, with the second match \u200bto be played from November 17-21 \u200bas scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Lahore has been grappling with poor air quality in recent weeks as \u200bseasonal smog blankets large parts \u200bof Pakistan during the winter months.<\/p>\n<p>According to \u200cIQAir, \u2060a Swiss air-quality monitoring company, Lahore is currently the most polluted major city in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Air-quality \u200bconcerns have \u200bdisrupted \u2060cricket schedules in Pakistan before.<\/p>\n<p>Smog led to the \u200brelocation of a limited-overs \u200bseries \u2060against Zimbabwe from Lahore to Rawalpindi in 2020, and a test \u2060against \u200bNew Zealand from Multan \u200bto Karachi in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second match in the two-test series between Pakistan and \u200bSri Lanka next week has \u200cbeen moved to Rawalpindi from Lahore due to worsening smog, the Pakistan \u200bCricket Board said on \u200bTuesday. Rawalpindi is currently hosting the series \u2060opener, with the second match \u200bto be played from November 17-21 \u200bas scheduled. Lahore has been grappling with poor air quality in recent weeks as \u200bseasonal smog blankets large parts \u200bof Pakistan during the winter months. According to \u200cIQAir, \u2060a Swiss air-quality monitoring company, Lahore is currently the most polluted major city&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-4205","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\/4205","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=4205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}