{"id":80464,"date":"2015-09-15T01:37:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T01:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/shapoor-leaves-for-london-to-join-world-xi\/"},"modified":"2015-09-15T01:37:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T01:37:01","slug":"shapoor-leaves-for-london-to-join-world-xi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/shapoor-leaves-for-london-to-join-world-xi\/","title":{"rendered":"Shapoor leaves for London to join World XI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Afghan cricket star Shahpoor Zadran on Tuesday left for London to join the World XI in a charity match to be played on Thursday September 17.<\/p>\n<p>Shapoor would join legendary cricketers like Brian Lara, Sanath Jaysuria, Mathew Hayden, Grahame Smith, Scot Straus, Abdul Razaq and Daniel Vettori. The opposite side, &ldquo;Help for Heroes&rdquo; is made-up of shining stars like Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Shahid Khan Afridi, Hershel Gibbs, Andrew Straus, Mathew Hogard and others.<\/p>\n<p>The match is aimed at generating charity for English soldiers that have sustained injuries on fronts.<\/p>\n<p>Before, departing for England, the Afghan fast bowler told SW he felt confident and proud to be selected for this match. &ldquo;I have worked-out hard for this event, and am very positive to perform well&rdquo;, Shahpoor said. The 28-year old has represented Afghanistan in 36 international one day matches and 23 T20 and has taken 39 and 24 wickets respectively.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Afghan cricket star Shahpoor Zadran on Tuesday left for London to join the World XI in a charity match to be played on Thursday September 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-80464","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\/80464","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=80464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}