{"id":24037,"date":"2026-10-09T16:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=24037"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T11:55:20","slug":"pakistan-name-squad-for-hong-kong-sixes-abbas-afridi-retained-as-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=24037","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan name squad for Hong Kong Sixes, Abbas Afridi retained as captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pakistan have announced their squad for the upcoming Hong Kong Sixes, with Abbas Afridi retained as captain of the national side.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The three-day tournament will be played from October 30 to November 1 and will feature a total of 12 teams.<\/p>\n<p>The participating teams have been divided into four groups, with Pakistan placed in Group C. Raza Kachloo will serve as the team&#8217;s manager for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s squad includes captain Abbas Afridi, Abdul Samad, Ahmed Daniyal, Muhammad Irfan Khan, Khawaja Nafay, Muhammad Shahzad and Saad Masood.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistan team will depart for Hong Kong on October 28.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan won the Hong Kong Sixes title last year and will enter this year&#8217;s tournament looking to defend their crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan have announced their squad for the upcoming Hong Kong Sixes, with Abbas Afridi retained as captain of the national side. The three-day tournament will be played from October 30 to November 1 and will feature a total of 12 teams. The participating teams have been divided into four groups, with Pakistan placed in Group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24038,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[13791,5675,13790,13792,3440,1553],"class_list":["post-24037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-sports","tag-abbas-afridi","tag-abdul-samad","tag-hong-kong-sixes","tag-khawaja-nafay","tag-pakistan-cricket","tag-pakistan-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24037","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=24037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24039,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24037\/revisions\/24039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}