{"id":183524,"date":"2021-04-01T07:35:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T02:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=183524"},"modified":"2021-04-01T07:35:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T02:35:56","slug":"sarfraz-likely-to-play-odis-against-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/sarfraz-likely-to-play-odis-against-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarfraz likely to play ODIs against South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pak vs SA<br \/>\nNews Desk<br \/>\nIslamabad<br \/>\nFormer captain Sarfraz Ahmed is expected to play One Day International (ODI) matches against South Africa, according to sources. Sarfraz is expected to take charge as a wicket-keeper and Mohammad Rizwan as a batsman.<br \/>\nMoreover, the team management is considering to include Muhammad Rizwan on number 4 and Sarfraz on number 5.<br \/>\nIn this regard, discussions are underway between Pakistan head coach Misbah ul Haq, national team captain Babar Azam and other officials on Sarfraz\u2019s participation in the the ODIs.<br \/>\nIn case Sarfraz is playing, either Haider Ali or Asif Ali will be dropped from the squad, the sources added.<br \/>\nThe series starts with a one-day international in Centurion on Friday.<br \/>\nAccording to details, the 34-member squad included 21 players and 13 team officials. 10 members of the Test squad will depart for Zimbabwe on April 12.<br \/>\nOn the South Africa tour, Pakistan will play three ICC Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup Super League matches from 2-7 April and four T20Is from 10-16 April in Centurion and Johannesburg.<br \/>\nGreen Shirts will then depart for Harare for three T20Is and two Tests, before returning home on 12 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pak vs SA News Desk Islamabad Former captain Sarfraz Ahmed is expected to play One Day International (ODI) matches against South Africa, according to sources. 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Moreover, the team management is considering to include Muhammad Rizwan on number 4 and Sarfraz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sarfraz likely to play ODIs against South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/sarfraz-likely-to-play-odis-against-south-africa\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sarfraz likely to play ODIs against South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pak vs SA News Desk Islamabad Former captain Sarfraz Ahmed is expected to play One Day International (ODI) matches against South Africa, according to sources. 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