{"id":86210,"date":"2017-10-18T08:24:37","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T08:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/stage-set-for-pionnering-t-10-cricket-league-in-the-uae\/"},"modified":"2017-10-18T08:24:37","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T08:24:37","slug":"stage-set-for-pionnering-t-10-cricket-league-in-the-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/stage-set-for-pionnering-t-10-cricket-league-in-the-uae\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage set for pionnering T-10 cricket league in the UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/6 June\/2017\/oct\/18\/crickt T10 league.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Six selected cricket teams from South Asia are set to feature in the pioneering T-10 Cricket League to be played in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) next month.<\/p>\n<p>Aziz Gardiwal, director GP Petroleum Afghanistan, told Salam Watandar investors from India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Pakistan would buy players for this mega event. He said the GP has bought &lsquo;Pakhtoons&rsquo; squad that would play under the captaincy of former Pakistani captain Shahid Afridi. Bollywood actress Zareen Khan has been picked as brand ambassador by GP.<\/p>\n<p>The six teams which will feature in the inaugural edition of the T10 tournament are: Maratha Arabians, Punjabi Legends, Bangla Tigers, Keralites King, Colombo Lions and Pakhtoons.<\/p>\n<p>Talented Afghan players with proven track-record in the T-20 format of the game are likely to be obtained for this pioneering T-10 format that is likely to be much faster and passionate.<\/p>\n<p>Gardiwal informed the four-day event would commence on December 21, and would be broadcast live by a number of sports channels across the globe. He added the objective behind the name of GP&rsquo;s team is to portray a more promising image of Pakhtoons against the one marred by ragging violence in this region.<\/p>\n<p>Habib Khan, owner of the GP squad, said on the occasion they would gather best available talent under Afridi in a bid to create more and more chances for lifting the trophy.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Six selected cricket teams from South Asia are set to feature in the pioneering T-10 Cricket League to be played in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-86210","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\/86210","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=86210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}