{"id":81830,"date":"2016-04-26T03:30:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T03:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/cricket-scotland-to-face-afghanistan-in-july\/"},"modified":"2016-04-26T03:30:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T03:30:58","slug":"cricket-scotland-to-face-afghanistan-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/cricket-scotland-to-face-afghanistan-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket: Scotland to face Afghanistan in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"393\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/4 April\/26  Apr\/Scotland-vs- AFG (3).jpg\" width=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Scotland&rsquo;s Cricket Board has officially announced that it will host Afghanistan for two One Day Internationals in July this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Cricket Scotland confirmed this via news on its official website. The two Associates will contest two One Day International fixtures, which will take place at&nbsp;the Grange in Edinburgh on&nbsp;Monday 4th&nbsp;and Wednesday 6th&nbsp;of July.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan produced a number of impressive performances at the ICC World T20 earlier this year &#8211; which included overcoming Scotland in a tight encounter in Nagpur &#8211; as they progressed to the second round of the competition, beating the competitions eventual winners, West Indies. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scotland Head Coach Grant Bradburn said on the announcement of the ODI&rsquo;s &nbsp;that Afghanistan have improved over the past year on the back of exposure to International cricket against full member nations. &ldquo;They fully deserve their current standing as one of the leading Associate nations, and we relish the chance to take them on at the Grange in July&rdquo;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that though Scotland respects the Afghan squad as a quality team but Scotland also have the skills to beat Afghanistan. &ldquo;We look forward to locking horns with them over the two match ODI series.&rdquo;, he said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tickets will be available on the gate on both match days.&nbsp; No advance purchase of tickets will be available. There will be no reserve days for these fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Scotland\u2019s Cricket Board has officially announced that it will host Afghanistan for two One Day Internationals in July this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-81830","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\/81830","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=81830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}