{"id":294773,"date":"2022-11-12T12:24:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T07:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=294773"},"modified":"2022-11-12T12:24:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T07:24:47","slug":"babar-azam-joins-peshawar-zalmi-for-psl-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/babar-azam-joins-peshawar-zalmi-for-psl-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar Azam joins Peshawar Zalmi for PSL 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Islamabad<br \/>\nPakistan\u2019s all-format skipper Babar Azam has officially joined Peshawar Zalmi for Pakistan Super League\u2019s eighth season, the franchise announced Saturday.<br \/>\nWith 2,413 runs under his belt in 68 matches, the prolific right-hander is the all-time highest scorer of PSL.<br \/>\nAccording to the sources, Babar has been traded by the Kings to Peshawar Zalmi in exchange for veteran all-rounder Shoaib Malik.<br \/>\nBabar represented Islamabad United in the inaugural edition of the PSL. Before PSL 2017 players\u2019 draft, Babar was moved to Kings. Since then, he represented the Kings in six PSL editions and also captained the franchise this year.<br \/>\nPSL is expected to announce retained players of all six franchises at 8:30pm today (November 11).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad Pakistan\u2019s all-format skipper Babar Azam has officially joined Peshawar Zalmi for Pakistan Super League\u2019s eighth season, the franchise announced Saturday. With 2,413 runs under his belt in 68 matches, the prolific right-hander is the all-time highest scorer of PSL. According to the sources, Babar has been traded by the Kings to Peshawar Zalmi in [&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":{"0":"post-294773","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"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 Azam joins Peshawar Zalmi for PSL 8<\/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-azam-joins-peshawar-zalmi-for-psl-8\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Babar Azam joins Peshawar Zalmi for PSL 8\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad Pakistan\u2019s all-format skipper Babar Azam has officially joined Peshawar Zalmi for Pakistan Super League\u2019s eighth season, the franchise announced Saturday. 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