{"id":79762,"date":"2015-04-21T20:18:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T20:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/stanikzai-named-captain-for-the-afghan-squade\/"},"modified":"2015-04-21T20:18:56","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T20:18:56","slug":"stanikzai-named-captain-for-the-afghan-squade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/stanikzai-named-captain-for-the-afghan-squade\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanikzai named Captain for the Afghan squade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul (SW): The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) named middle-order batsman Asghar Stanikzai as the new captain for the national squad on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Selector Daulat Ahmadzai introduced the new captain in a press conference at the ACB headquarters in Kabul. Stankizai thanked the board for entitling him with the new task.<\/p>\n<p>27 years old debuted in 2009 against Scotland. He has so far scored 904 runs in 43 One Day Internationals ODIs with an average 24.43.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Following the surprise announcement by Muhammad Nabi Essakhail to step down as Captain of the national cricket team, the Cricket Board was seeking a suitable replacement.<\/p>\n<p>Leading the squad for over two years, Essakhail cited the recent poor performance of the team and his lack of form as reasons behind his decision.<\/p>\n<p>All-rounder Essakhail has to his credit over a thousand One Day International ODI runs and 45 wickets. He has featured in all 51 ODIs Afghanistan has played so far.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan featured in the Cricket World Cup 2015, the first ever for this emerging team that has impressed many on the global arena.&nbsp; On his part, Essakhail managed to score just 90 runs in the six games Afghanistan played during the CWC 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kabul (SW): The Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) named middle-order batsman Asghar Stanikzai as the new captain for the national squad on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-79762","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\/79762","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=79762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}