{"id":86158,"date":"2017-10-12T06:44:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T06:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/kabul-gets-new-and-well-equipped-cricket-academy\/"},"modified":"2017-10-12T06:44:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T06:44:35","slug":"kabul-gets-new-and-well-equipped-cricket-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/kabul-gets-new-and-well-equipped-cricket-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabul gets new and well-equipped cricket academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/6 June\/2017\/oct\/12\/crickt (5).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): A well-equipped and modern &lsquo;Abdali Cricket Academy&rsquo; (ACA) was inaugurated in Kabul on Thursday with an aim to nurture young talent for the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Located in the capital&rsquo;s Ahmad Shah Baba maina, the academy has been founded by Nazeem Jar Abdul Rahimzai, a former official at the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB). The ACA has nine cement and clay pitches that can entertain up to 1000 cricketers in three shifts in a day. Rahimzai has plans to develop an indoor academy, physical fitness center and English language center here as well.<\/p>\n<p>Talking to Salam Watandar, the ACA management said they are also aiming to train a new breed of fast-bowlers that are missing from the national team now.<\/p>\n<p>Mushtaq Raheem, former ACB employee, hailed the progress Afghans have achieved from refugee camp grounds to professional cricket academies.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the capital Kabul alone has two other cricket academies apart from the ACA and is bracing for the fourth one in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): A well-equipped and modern \u2018Abdali Cricket Academy\u2019 (ACA) was inaugurated in Kabul on Thursday with an aim to nurture young talent for the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-86158","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\/86158","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=86158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}