{"id":81180,"date":"2016-01-04T14:05:05","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T14:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/zimbabwe-pushes-afghanistan-away-from-10th-slot\/"},"modified":"2016-01-04T14:05:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T14:05:05","slug":"zimbabwe-pushes-afghanistan-away-from-10th-slot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/zimbabwe-pushes-afghanistan-away-from-10th-slot\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe pushes Afghanistan away from 10th slot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Afghanistan lost its hard-earned 10<sup>th<\/sup> slot on the International Cricket Council (ICC) ranking following a defeat against Zimbabwe in Sharjah on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In this fourth match of the 5 One Day International (ODI) series, Afghanistan had the upper hand in the first two. It however, lost the following two in a miserable way. In the 4<sup>th<\/sup> ODI last evening, Zimbabwe bat first and piled an impressive total of 264 runs. Afghan batsmen only managed to score 161 in reply.<\/p>\n<p>The toss was won by Zimbabwe who chose to bat first. With half-centuries from openers Peter Moor (52) and Chamu Chibhabha (53), Zimbabwe went off a flying start. Afghanistan&#39;s spinners provided the much needed break-through later in the innings, with leg-spinner Rashid Khan claiming three wickets. Fast bowler Dawlat Zadran also took three.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan&rsquo;s batting failed to prove depth and class as Chibhaba once again proved lethal with ball by sending four Afghan batsmen to the pavilion. For the hosts, once again wicket-keeper batsman Mohammad Shahzad remained the top scorer with 45 runs.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan would take on Zimbabwe for the decisive 5<sup>th<\/sup> match of the series on Wednesday January 06.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noticing that Zimbabwe once lost the 10<sup>th<\/sup> slot&nbsp;to Ireland as well but it regained if with improved performance. Afghanistan, however, could only sit on this position for two days.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Afghanistan lost its hard-earned 10th slot on the International Cricket Council (ICC) ranking following a defeat against Zimbabwe in Sharjah on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81180","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=81180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}