{"id":271341,"date":"2022-07-15T09:40:03","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T04:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=271341"},"modified":"2022-07-15T09:40:03","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T04:40:03","slug":"babar-gearing-up-for-galle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/babar-gearing-up-for-galle\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar \u2018gearing\u2019 up for Galle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pak vs SL<br \/>\n Islamabad<br \/>\nThe Babar Azam-led Pakistan team will take on Dimuth Karunaratne\u2019s Sri Lanka in Galle Test, starting this Saturday with expectations of spinners battle.<br \/>\nBut nonetheless, skipper Babar is ready to live up to the task.<br \/>\nTaking to Twitter, the 27-year-old said \u201cGearing up for Galle\u201d, as he shared photos of him smashing shots during the three-day warm-up match against Sri Lanka Cricket XI.<br \/>\nBabar scored 88 runs off 113, with the help of eight fours and four sixes at the Colts Cricket Club Ground in the match that ended in a draw.<br \/>\nBabar himself has been in roaring form with the bat and recently hit 196 against Australia in the team\u2019s home series, which they ended up losing 1-0 in March.<br \/>\nSri Lanka head into the Pakistan series after two contrasting results in Galle where they first lost to Australia on a vicious turner and then bounced back to hammer the tourists on Monday.<br \/>\nThe Test series will be played under the ICC World Test Championship Cycle of 2021 \u2013 2023.<br \/>\nThe first Test will begin at the Galle International Cricket Stadium while the second match is scheduled to be played from July 24-28 at the Colombo stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pak vs SL Islamabad The Babar Azam-led Pakistan team will take on Dimuth Karunaratne\u2019s Sri Lanka in Galle Test, starting this Saturday with expectations of spinners battle. 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Taking to Twitter, the 27-year-old said \u201cGearing up for Galle\u201d, as he shared photos of him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":271359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-271341","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Babar \u2018gearing\u2019 up for Galle<\/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\/babar-gearing-up-for-galle\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Babar \u2018gearing\u2019 up for Galle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pak vs SL Islamabad The Babar Azam-led Pakistan team will take on Dimuth Karunaratne\u2019s Sri Lanka in Galle Test, starting this Saturday with expectations of spinners battle. 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