{"id":95147,"date":"2026-10-31T08:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/95147"},"modified":"2026-10-31T08:02:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T08:02:57","slug":"pakistan-opt-to-field-against-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/95147","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan opt to field against Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>Pakistan have won the toss and elected to field first against Sir Lanka in the tri-series final at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both sides have made their way into the final after impressive performances throughout the series.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides made one change to their line-up, with Shadab Khan ruled out due to illness and replaced by Faheem Ashraf for Pakistan, while Sri Lanka called in Maheesh Theekshana in place of Eshan Malinga.<\/p>\n<p>Team<\/p>\n<p>Sri Lanka XI: 1 Kamindu Mendis, 2 Avishka Fernando, 3 Kusal Mendis (capt, wk), 4 Pavan Rathnayake, 5 Sahan Arachchige, 6 Janith Liyanage, 7 Dasun Shanaka, 8 Dunith Wellalage, 9 Maheesh Theekshana, 10 Asitha Fernando, 11 Dilshan Madushanka<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan XI: 1 Maaz Sadaqat, 2 Fakhar Zaman, 3 Babar Azam, 4 Saad Baig (wk), 5 Salman Agha, 6 Hasan Nawaz, 7 Arafat Minhas, 8 Faheem Ashraf, 9 Shaheen Shah Afridi (capt), 10 Naseem Shah, 11 Haris Rauf<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/tri-series-final-pakistan-opt-to-field-against-sri-lanka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan have won the toss and elected to field first against Sir Lanka in the tri-series final at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore on Saturday. Both sides have made their way into the final after impressive performances throughout the series. Both sides made one change to their line-up, with Shadab Khan ruled out due to illness and replaced by Faheem Ashraf for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":95148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":16,"label":"Pakistan"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-183-1024x576.jpg",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"frkhokhar@gmail.com","author_link":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/author\/frkhokhargmail-com"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":16,"name":"Pakistan","slug":"pakistan","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16,"taxonomy":"category","description":"All about Pakistan","parent":0,"count":9296,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":16,"category_count":9296,"category_description":"All about Pakistan","cat_name":"Pakistan","category_nicename":"pakistan","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95149,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95147\/revisions\/95149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsvog.com\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}