{"id":80722,"date":"2015-10-30T17:25:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T17:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghanistan-to-play-qualifying-rounds-for-asian-t-20-championship\/"},"modified":"2015-10-30T17:25:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T17:25:25","slug":"afghanistan-to-play-qualifying-rounds-for-asian-t-20-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghanistan-to-play-qualifying-rounds-for-asian-t-20-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan to play qualifying rounds for Asian T-20 Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL(SW): Afghanistan&#39;s fate about participating in the up-coming Asian T-20 Cricket Championship hangs in balance as the Asian Cricket Council(ACC) declined it a direct entry into this even.<\/p>\n<p>The ACC decided in a meeting that the full member states India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka would directly enter the competition while one country would be given the chance to compete after a qualifying tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Afghansitan won the freee entry for this event due to its good performance in the run-up to the 2015 One Day International ODI World Cup. This time, it is different. Afghanistan would play the host United Arab Emirates, Oman and Hong Kong in a qualifying tournament in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>This qualifying tournament would commence in Abu Dhabi on November 27.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Winner of this tournament would join the five full ICC members in the Asian T-20 World Cup in Bangladesh next year.<\/p>\n<p>This event would start on February 24 and would continue till 6 March.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sixth time for Bangladesh to host the Asian Cup matches.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan s fate about participating in the up-coming Asian T-20 Cricket Championship hangs in balance as the Asian Cricket Council(ACC) declined it a direct entry into this event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":80723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-80722","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\/80722","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=80722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}