{"id":82914,"date":"2016-10-02T04:08:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T04:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/despite-defeat-afghanistan-deprives-bangladesh-of-points\/"},"modified":"2016-10-02T04:08:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T04:08:52","slug":"despite-defeat-afghanistan-deprives-bangladesh-of-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/despite-defeat-afghanistan-deprives-bangladesh-of-points\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite defeat, Afghanistan deprives Bangladesh of points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"442\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/10 October\/2 Oct\/611736172.jpg\" width=\"750\" \/><\/p>\n<p>DHAKA (SW): Despite losing the maiden One Day International (ODI) series to the hosts Bangladesh, the Afghan squad has further strengthened its position in the world ranking.<\/p>\n<p>With one victory in this three ODIs series, Afghanistan earned 4 points to leave behind its nearest rival Zimbabwe and secure the 10<sup>th<\/sup> slot at the International Cricket Council (ICC) ranking. Bangladesh on the other hand, has lost three important points due to defeat in one match during the series.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh managed to beat Afghanistan with a phenomenal margin of 141 in a rather one-sided final on Saturday. This was the hosts&rsquo; fifth series win at home. Losing three points in the ranking however, might hamper Bangladesh&rsquo;s prospects for qualifying for the 2019 50 Over World Cup in England.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, Bangladesh is at number 7 on the ICC ranking but its rival Pakistan at number 9 is displaying impressive performance against the number 8 West Indies, which means it can deprive Bangladesh of its ranking.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Bangladesh has the chance to utilize its potential in the forthcoming home series against the number 5 England to secure its slot. As per the ICC&#39;s top ten ranking, Australia is on top followed by New Zealand, South African, India, England, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, West Indies, Pakistan and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA (SW): Despite losing the maiden One Day International (ODI) series to the hosts Bangladesh, the Afghan squad has further strengthened its position in the world ranking. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82914","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\/82914","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=82914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}