{"id":77670,"date":"2018-03-23T07:17:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T07:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/stanikzai-steers-afghanistan-to-2019-world-cup\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:38:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:38:14","slug":"stanikzai-steers-afghanistan-to-2019-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/stanikzai-steers-afghanistan-to-2019-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanikzai steers Afghanistan to 2019 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"303\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/3- Mar\/23\/\u06a9\u0631\u06a9\u067c.jpg\" width=\"589\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Afghanistan beat Ireland on Friday in a nail-biting qualifier to secure place in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Both Afghanistan and Ireland with 4 points were behind the West Indies, Zimbabwe and Scotland on the chart, however, the victory earned Afghanistan two important points to reach to the mega event.<\/p>\n<p>Batting first, Ireland were restricted by the Afghans for a modest total of 209 thanks to the disciplined bowling and fielding in Harare. Googly-master Rashid Khan was pick of the bowlers taking three wickets for 40 runs in 10 overs. For Ireland, PR Stirling scored the most 55 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Chasing the target, Mohammad Shahzad and Gulbuddin Naib gave a nice start of 86 runs in 17 overs. However, things got out of hand, and the middle-order find it hard to score runs. Captain Asghar Stanikzai came to the rescue, and scored quick-fired 39 of 29 balls and Najib Zadran 17 of 15 balls that released the pressured, and achieve the target with five balls to spare.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan would face top-ranked West Indies in the final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Afghanistan beat Ireland on Friday in a nail-biting qualifier to secure place in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-77670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}