{"id":13016,"date":"2022-12-27T13:20:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T13:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=13016"},"modified":"2022-12-27T13:20:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T13:20:02","slug":"sarfaraz-ahmed-proved-his-selection-right-shahid-afridi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/sarfaraz-ahmed-proved-his-selection-right-shahid-afridi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarfaraz Ahmed \u2018proved his selection right&#8217;: Shahid Afridi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sarfaraz Ahmed \u2018proved his selection right&#8217;: Shahid Afridi. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcb.com.pk\/\">Pakistan Cricket Board<\/a>&#8216;s (PCB) interim chief selector Shahid Afridi Monday praised Sarfaraz Ahmed for his performance against New Zealand in Green Shirts&#8217; first game in the two-match Test series taking place in Karachi&#8217;s National Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sarfaraz proved his selection right, excellent performance for him under pressure,&#8221; the former Pakistan skipper tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Afridi, who is part of the PCB&#8217;s newly-appointed management committee, was named as the chief of the interim selection committee last week.<\/p>\n<p>The former all-rounder excused from taking a permanent role in the board. However, Abdul Razzaq and Rao Iftikhar Anjum will be the members. Haroon Rashid, who is also a member of the PCB management committee, will be the convener.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pcb-announces-pakistans-squad-for-t20-world-cup.html\">PCB announces Pakistan&#8217;s squad for T20 World Cup<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In his first Test since 2019, Sarfaraz made 86 runs after replacing wicketkeeper Mohammad Rizwan in the side.<\/p>\n<p>The wicket-keeper batter enjoyed an excellent 196-run partnership with Babar before Patel dismissed him when he edged one to Mitchell at first slip shortly before the close.<\/p>\n<p>Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi known as Shahid Afridi, is a Pakistani former cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently serving as the interim chief selector of the Pakistan cricket team. An all-rounder, Afridi was a right-handed leg spinner and a right-handed batsman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarfaraz Ahmed \u2018proved his selection right&#8217;: Shahid Afridi. Pakistan Cricket Board&#8216;s (PCB) interim chief selector Shahid Afridi Monday praised Sarfaraz Ahmed for his performance against New Zealand in Green Shirts&#8217; first game in the two-match Test series taking place in Karachi&#8217;s National Stadium. &#8220;Sarfaraz proved his selection right, excellent performance for him under pressure,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[694,1449,6765,516,459,2756,364],"class_list":["post-13016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-babar-azam","tag-haroon-rashid","tag-national-stadium","tag-new-zealand","tag-pakistan-cricket-board","tag-sarfaraz-ahmed","tag-pcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}