{"id":84628,"date":"2017-04-26T07:05:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T07:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/foundation-stone-laid-for-cricket-stadium-in-nangarhar\/"},"modified":"2017-04-26T07:05:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T07:05:18","slug":"foundation-stone-laid-for-cricket-stadium-in-nangarhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/foundation-stone-laid-for-cricket-stadium-in-nangarhar\/","title":{"rendered":"Foundation stone laid for cricket stadium in Nangarhar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"540\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/April\/26\/Nangarhar Cricket Ground 3.jpg\" width=\"960\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Foundation stone has been laid for a new cricket stadium in Nangarhar province on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Atif Mashal, president of the Afghanistan Cricket Board, Gulab Mangal, governor of Nangarhar, Fazl Hadi Muslimyar, speaker of the Masharano Jirga (upper house), and a number of other dignitaries took part in the ground breaking ceremony. Mashal said on the occasion that the new stadium would match world-class quality, and would prove handy in nurturing the vast potential for cricket in the eastern zone.<\/p>\n<p>The stadium would cost up to $ 2.5 million, and would be completed in two years&rsquo; time.<\/p>\n<p>The ACB president said the board has funds worth $ 700, 000 available that would spend on erecting boundary walls, and paving the ground for the stadium. Mashal said the ACB aims to develop a cricket academy here as well.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Foundation stone has been laid for a new cricket stadium in Nangarhar province on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-84628","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\/84628","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=84628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}