{"id":2698,"date":"2022-11-11T17:45:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=2698"},"modified":"2022-11-11T17:45:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T17:45:47","slug":"peshawar-zalmi-welcomes-babar-azam-to-the-fold-as-psl-8-retentions-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=2698","title":{"rendered":"Peshawar Zalmi welcomes Babar Azam to the fold as PSL 8 retentions announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar Zalmi on Friday announced that Babar Azam would be joining the team for the upcoming eighth edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) as the squads revealed their retentions.<\/p>\n<p>King Bobby ?\u26a1@babarazam258 Welcome to the #YellowStorm #BabarYellowStorm #Zalmi #HBLPSL pic.twitter.com\/NF85NnQtDv<br \/>\n\u2014 Peshawar Zalmi (@PeshawarZalmi) November 11, 2022<br \/>\nThe T20 league is set to be held from February 9 to March 19 next year across four venues \u2014 Karachi, Lahore, Multan and Rawalpindi.<br \/>\nThe seventh edition of the PSL ended with Lahore Qalandars becoming champions for the first time ever. The team that qualified for the final just once in the last six seasons dominated the grand finale and dethroned the defending champions, Multan Sultans, on the day it mattered the most.<br \/>\nThe final was played on February 27 at Lahore\u2019s Gaddafi Stadium between the two top teams of PSL 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peshawar Zalmi on Friday announced that Babar Azam would be joining the team for the upcoming eighth edition of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2699,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}