{"id":81536,"date":"2016-03-11T16:25:31","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghanistan-takes-on-zimbabwe-in-the-knockout-encounter\/"},"modified":"2016-03-11T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:25:31","slug":"afghanistan-takes-on-zimbabwe-in-the-knockout-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghanistan-takes-on-zimbabwe-in-the-knockout-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan takes on Zimbabwe in the knockout encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/3 March\/12  Mar\/TERE.JPG\" \/>Cricket: Afghanistan takes on Zimbabwe in the knockout encounter<\/p>\n<p>NAGPUR (SW): Afghanistan&rsquo;s cricket team has won the toss and elected to bat first against Zimbabwe in the knockout encounter for the ongoing T20 Cricket World Cup in Nagpur, India.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan captain Asghar Stanikzai won the toss and chose to set a target. The winner of this match will enter the Super 10s stage of the World T20. Both teams have won two games each in the group stage so far.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan seemed to hold all the aces, having beaten Zimbabwe in all four of their previous T20I encounters and securing a comfortable win over Hong Kong. They kept the same team from that match for this one and expected conditions to be similar to what they were on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>If Afghanistan manages to win this match, it will&nbsp;be its maiden entry into the Super 10 stage of the world cup.<\/p>\n<p>Teams for the day are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe:&nbsp;1 Hamilton Masakadza, 2 Vusi Sibanda, 3 Richmond Mutumbami (wk), 4 Sean Williams, 5 Sikandar Raza, 6 Malcolm Waller, 7 Elton Chigumbura, 8 Donald Tiripano, 9 Wellington Masakadza, 10 Tinashe Panyangara, 11 Tendai Chatara<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan:&nbsp;1 Mohammad Shahzad (wk), 2 Noor Ali Zadran, 3 Asghar Stanikzai (capt), 4 Gulbadin Naib, 5 Mohammad Nabi, 6 Samiullah Shenwari, 7 Najibullah Zadran, 8 Shafiqullah, 9 Rashid Khan, 10 Dawlat Zadran, 11 Hamid Hassan<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAGPUR (SW): Afghanistan\u2019s cricket team has won the toss and elected to bat first against Zimbabwe in the knockout encounter for the ongoing T20 Cricket World Cup in Nagpur, India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81536","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\/81536","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=81536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}