{"id":78957,"date":"2018-08-26T08:52:31","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T08:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghan-cricketers-rise-in-t20-rankings\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T10:54:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T10:54:45","slug":"afghan-cricketers-rise-in-t20-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghan-cricketers-rise-in-t20-rankings\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan cricketers rise in T20 rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"327\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2018\/7- Augest\/26\/cricket ICC  Afghanistan.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW) &ndash; The latest rankings published by the International Cricket Council has two Afghan players rising to higher positions.<\/p>\n<p>In this ICC ranking, spin-bowler, Mujibur Rehman Zadran has left behind 25 international players from his previous position to secure the 37<sup>th<\/sup> slot. And, following impressive display of batting, new and emerging star opening batsman, Hazratullah Zazai, has immediately entered the latest ICC rankings ahead of two international players.<\/p>\n<p>Zazai scored two consecutive half-centuries, 74 and 82, against Ireland in the latest series away from home.<\/p>\n<p>The spin-sensation, Rashid Khan, has successfully secured his top position as the best bowler in the T20 format while flamboyant opening batsman Shahzad Mohammadi has been dropped from 10<sup>th<\/sup> to 13<sup>th<\/sup> slot. Among all-rounders, the experienced Mohammad Nabi remains second best in the world behind Australia&rsquo;s Glenn Maxwell.<\/p>\n<p>Among the national teams, Afghanistan remains ahead of Sri Lanka and Bangladesh on the 8<sup>th<\/sup> slot.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW) \u2013 The latest rankings published by the International Cricket Council has two Afghan players rising to higher positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-78957","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\/78957","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=78957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}