{"id":11801,"date":"2025-01-02T14:17:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-02T09:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=11801"},"modified":"2025-01-02T14:17:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T09:17:50","slug":"second-test-pakistan-to-face-south-africa-from-january-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=11801","title":{"rendered":"Second Test: Pakistan to Face South Africa from January 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The second Test match between Pakistan and South Africa will be played tomorrow, Friday. A change in the national team is expected.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two-match series&#8217; second and final Test match between Pakistan and South Africa will be held from January 3 to 7 at Newlands, Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa leads the two-match series 0-1. The Proteas defeated Pakistan by two wickets in the Centurion Test.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s team is expected to change, with left-arm fast bowler Mir Hamza likely to replace Aamir Jamal in the eleven-member squad.<\/p>\n<p>Aamir Jamal took two wickets in the first innings of the Centurion Test but faced criticism for bowling just one over in the second innings.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa had defeated Pakistan in the T20 series, while Pakistan claimed victory in the ODI series, sweeping South Africa 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa will also aim to win the second Test match, while Pakistan will make every effort to win the second Test to level the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second Test match between Pakistan and South Africa will be played tomorrow, Friday. A change in the national team is expected. The two-match series&#8217; second and final Test match between Pakistan and South Africa will be held from January 3 to 7 at Newlands, Cape Town. South Africa leads the two-match series 0-1. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,38],"tags":[4802,62,1325,1635],"class_list":["post-11801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-sports","tag-january-3","tag-pakistan","tag-second-test","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}