{"id":80366,"date":"2015-09-02T21:51:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T21:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/cricket-continues-to-bring-joy-to-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2015-09-02T21:51:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T21:51:12","slug":"cricket-continues-to-bring-joy-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/cricket-continues-to-bring-joy-to-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket continues to bring joy to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): The latest T-20 International Cricket Council (ICC) ranking kept Afghanistan ahead of test-status holders Bangladesh and Zimbabwe on the 9<sup>th<\/sup> slot.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ranking, Sri Lanka is on top with 126 Rating, followed by Pakistan, Australia and India.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Thursday, Afghanistan&rsquo;s Under 19 cricket squad defeated Malaysia on its home ground to successfully retain the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) Under-19 Premier Cup title.<\/p>\n<p>Bating first, the host side only managed to score 105 runs while losing 6 wickets in the allotted 50 over. Afghanistan managed to achieve the target in the 25<sup>th<\/sup> over with the loss of only three wickets. Hazrat Ali Zazai scored an impressive half century by managing to score 66 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Top teams of this tournament qualified for the Under-19 World Cup scheduled to take place in Bangladesh in 2016<\/p>\n<p>The champions are set to land in Kabul on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): The latest T-20 International Cricket Council (ICC) ranking kept Afghanistan ahead of test-status holders Bangladesh and Zimbabwe on the 9th slot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-80366","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\/80366","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=80366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}