{"id":1163422,"date":"2026-02-16T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1163422"},"modified":"2026-02-16T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:54:08","slug":"smith-approved-as-replacement-for-hazlewood-in-australia-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/smith-approved-as-replacement-for-hazlewood-in-australia-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith approved as replacement for Hazlewood in Australia squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>ISLAMABAD, Feb 16 (APP):The Event Technical Committee of the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 has approved Steve Smith as a replacement for Josh Hazlewood in the Australia squad.<\/div>\n<div>Smith is named as a replacement for Hazlewood, who is now officially ruled out from participating in the tournament due to a calf injury, said a press release.<\/div>\n<div>The team\u2019s medical staff had hoped to have him fit in time to feature in the latter parts of the tournament but were unsuccessful.<\/div>\n<div>The replacement of a player requires the approval of the Event Technical Committee before the replacement player can be officially added to the squad.<\/div>\n<div>The Event Technical committee of the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 consists of Wasim Khan (Chair, ICC General Manager &#8211; Cricket), Gaurav Saxena (ICC General Manager \u2013 Events &amp; Corporate Communications, IBC representative), Hemang Amin (Tournament Director, host representative) and Shaun Pollock (Independent nominee).<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Feb 16 (APP):The Event Technical Committee of the ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026 has approved Steve Smith as a replacement for Josh Hazlewood in the Australia squad. Smith is named as a replacement for Hazlewood, who is now officially ruled out from participating in the tournament due to a calf injury, said a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1163423,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[9058,3885,5676,9059],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1163422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-australia-squad","tag-icc","tag-icc-t20-world-cup-2026","tag-steve-smith","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163422"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1163422"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1163422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}