{"id":83402,"date":"2016-11-23T22:04:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T22:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghanistan-set-to-participate-in-8-nation-t20\/"},"modified":"2016-11-23T22:04:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T22:04:01","slug":"afghanistan-set-to-participate-in-8-nation-t20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghanistan-set-to-participate-in-8-nation-t20\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan set to participate in 8 nation T20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/11 Novomber\/23 Nov\/afg crict (2).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW):&nbsp;Afghanistan is set to join seven other international cricket teams with T20I status to take part in a round-robin tournament planned for the start of the New Year.<\/p>\n<p>Although a 2018 World T20 is yet to be confirmed by the ICC, multiple sources have told ESPNcricinfo that this tournament is being viewed as a strong signal that the 2018 World T20 will be approved. The tournament would also be separate from a possible World T20 Qualifier involving other Associates advancing out of their regional tournaments that could be held later in 2017 or early 2018 pending ICC approval of a World T20 in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, in addition to the top six Associates with dual ODI and T20I status &#8211; Ireland, Afghanistan, Scotland, Hong Kong, UAE, Papua New Guinea &#8211; the two other participating countries are Netherlands and Oman, who each secured T20I status by qualifying for the 2016 World T20 in India.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament is tentatively scheduled for January 6 to 20 at the ICC Academy in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>For Afghanistan, Scotland, Netherlands, and Oman, this would be their first T20Is since the 2016 World T20 in March.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Afghanistan is set to join seven other international cricket teams with T20I status to take part in a round-robin tournament planned for the start of the New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83402","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\/83402","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=83402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}