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Truth is bitter,\u201d hours after Chief Selector Inzimamul Haq announced to replace him with Mohammad Amir in light of his below par performance against England.<br \/>\nFaheem Ashraf and Abid Ali are also among the players recalled from the squad announced a month ago.<br \/>\n\u201cJunaid and Faheem are dropped but that doesn\u2019t mean they are not good. But we think players like Amir and Wahab are more suitable for these conditions, which is why we have preferred them,\u201d said Inzimam.<br \/>\nJunaid picked only two wickets in the recently concluded series against England which Pakistan lost by 4-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports desk Islamabad Fast bowler Junaid Khan on Monday protested over his non-inclusion in the World Cup squad with a picture showing his mouth covered with black tape. Junaid captioned the picture with: \u201cI don\u2019t want to say anything. Truth is bitter,\u201d hours after Chief Selector Inzimamul Haq announced to replace him with Mohammad Amir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Junaid protests over his non-inclusion in World Cup squad<\/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\/junaid-protests-over-his-non-inclusion-in-world-cup-squad\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Junaid protests over his non-inclusion in World Cup squad\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sports desk Islamabad Fast bowler Junaid Khan on Monday protested over his non-inclusion in the World Cup squad with a picture showing his mouth covered with black tape. 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