{"id":207924,"date":"2025-01-04T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/icc-champions-trophy-pakistan-hit-by-major-injury-setback\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T22:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T22:48:11","slug":"icc-champions-trophy-pakistan-hit-by-major-injury-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/04\/icc-champions-trophy-pakistan-hit-by-major-injury-setback\/","title":{"rendered":"ICC Champions Trophy: Pakistan Hit By Major Injury Setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"755\" height=\"406\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/feeds.abplive.com\/onecms\/images\/uploaded-images\/2025\/01\/04\/445987070b0ffddab9701f8a514503aa173598572397324_original.jpg?impolicy=abp_cdn&amp;imwidth=1200&amp;resize=755,406&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"ICC Champions Trophy: Pakistan Hit By Major Injury Setback\" title=\"ICC Champions Trophy: Pakistan Hit By Major Injury Setback\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-hstick-inner\">\n<p>ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is set to take place in Pakistan, with the tournament&#8217;s schedule already announced. Before that, Pakistan is currently touring South Africa for a two-match Test series, with South Africa leading 1-0 after winning the first match. The second Test is ongoing, but during this match, Pakistan opener Saim Ayub has been ruled out due to an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saim Ayub to Miss Six Weeks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saim Ayub is expected to be out of action for at least six weeks after suffering a fracture to his right ankle while fielding in the second Test against South Africa. This injury is a major setback for Pakistan, but it could provide an unexpected opportunity for veteran Fakhar Zaman.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Pakistani Ulta Pro Max star Saim Ayub twisted his ankle while fielding.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PAKvsSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#PAKvsSA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wUOMo5FWCW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/wUOMo5FWCW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 \ud835\ude55\ud835\ude44\ud835\ude48\ud835\ude3d\ud835\ude50 \ud83d\ude0e (@Zimbu12_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Zimbu12_\/status\/1875156348524224673?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">January 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With ICC Champions Trophy 2025 looming, Fakhar may now have a chance to make his way into the squad. The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed in a press release that an MRI had revealed the fracture, and Saim will soon return to Pakistan for treatment and recovery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SA vs PAK 2nd Test: South Africa in complete control<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Day 1, South Africa&#8217;s batting was led by captain Temba Bavuma, who scored a solid 106 off 179 balls. He was well supported by opener Ryan Rickelton, who remained unbeaten on 213*, as the pair put together a mammoth 235-run partnership.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan bowlers were left chasing shadows, unable to make any breakthroughs. As Day 2 unfolds, South Africa has piled up 429\/5, continuing to dominate the Pakistan side.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, South Africa defeated Pakistan by two wickets in the first Test of two-match Test series to take 1-0 lead and become the first team in current World Test Championship (WTC) cycle to qualify for June&#8217;s WTC Final.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kwena Maphaka made history by becoming the youngest South African to debut in a Test match as the Proteas won the toss and chose to bat first in the second and final Test against Pakistan on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.abplive.com\/sports\/cricket\/icc-champions-trophy-pakistan-hit-by-saim-ayub-injury-setback-1741813\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ICC Champions Trophy 2025 is set to take place in Pakistan, with the tournament&#8217;s schedule already announced. Before that, Pakistan is currently touring South Africa for a two-match Test series, with South Africa leading 1-0 after winning the first match. The second Test is ongoing, but during this match, Pakistan opener Saim Ayub has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/feeds.abplive.com\/onecms\/images\/uploaded-images\/2025\/01\/04\/445987070b0ffddab9701f8a514503aa173598572397324_original.jpg?impolicy=abp_cdn&imwidth=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[605],"tags":[6686,34009,40731,1028,1310,45384,66052,15464,15463,1263,846,264,3617,257,48780,3423,1265],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207926,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207924\/revisions\/207926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}