{"id":84052,"date":"2017-02-15T07:51:28","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/afghanistan-ready-to-take-on-zimbabwe-on-thursday\/"},"modified":"2017-02-15T07:51:28","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T07:51:28","slug":"afghanistan-ready-to-take-on-zimbabwe-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/afghanistan-ready-to-take-on-zimbabwe-on-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan ready to take on Zimbabwe on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"266\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/feb\/15\/crickt (1).jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): The Afghanistan national cricket team is all set to take on seasoned Zimbabwean team for the first One Day International (ODI) of the bilateral series on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The national team has been busy training for this series in Zimbabwe for a week now. The match would begin at 12 o&rsquo; clock noon Afghanistan time. &nbsp;Afghanistan has been dominating the International Cricket Council (ICC)&rsquo;s full member Zimbabwe for the past three years now. In the three series played between the two so far, Afghanistan has won two while one was a draw. In the 14 ODIs played between the two, Afghanistan has won eight while Zimbabwe managed to win six of them.<\/p>\n<p>Afghan players also outshined their Zimbabwean counterparts in individual performances. Mohammad Nabi remains top scorer&nbsp;in these matches played between the two with 465 runs including a century. In the bowlers, Dawlat Zadran is on top with 24 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>As per the schedule, second match of the series would be played on February 19, third one on the 21, third on the 24 and the last ODI on the 26&nbsp;of this month.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): The Afghanistan national cricket team is all set to take on seasoned Zimbabwean team for the first One Day International (ODI) of the bilateral series on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84052","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\/84052","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=84052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}