{"id":117429,"date":"2026-07-07T13:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=117429"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T08:46:13","slug":"former-afghan-bowler-shapoor-zadran-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/former-afghan-bowler-shapoor-zadran-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Afghan bowler Shapoor Zadran passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Former Afghanistan international <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/bangladeshi-fast-bowler-nahid-rana-joined-peshawar-zalmi\/\">fast bowler<\/a> Shapoor Zadran has died at the age of 38 after a long illness, according to Afghan media reports.<\/p>\n<p>As per the reports, Shapoor Zadran passed away in New Delhi, India, on July 7, a day before his 39th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>He was considered a key bowler during the early days of Afghanistan cricket.<\/p>\n<p>Shapoor Zadran, who lived in Peshawar, Pakistan, as a refugee, began his early cricket career there. His early teammates included renowned international cricketers Mohammad Nabi, Asghar, and Dawlat Zadran.<\/p>\n<p>He represented Afghanistan in 44 ODIs and 36 T20 matches between 2009 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>He was battling a serious immune disorder called hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis in the intensive care unit of a hospital in New Delhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Former Afghanistan international fast bowler Shapoor Zadran has died at the age of 38 after a long illness, according to Afghan media reports. As per the reports, Shapoor Zadran passed away in New Delhi, India, on July 7, a day before his 39th birthday. He was considered a key bowler during the early days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":117432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[43587],"class_list":["post-117429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-shapoor-zadran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117429"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117436,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117429\/revisions\/117436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}