{"id":13309,"date":"2023-01-11T12:17:21","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T12:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=13309"},"modified":"2023-01-11T12:17:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T12:17:21","slug":"lahore-qalandars-look-to-retain-psl-title-under-shaheens-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/lahore-qalandars-look-to-retain-psl-title-under-shaheens-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Lahore Qalandars look to retain PSL title under Shaheen&#8217;s leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore Qalandars look to retain PSL title under Shaheen&#8217;s leadership. Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchise Lahore Qalandars are aiming to retain the title in the eighth edition of the tournament \u2014\u00a0 scheduled to begin on February 13, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Lahore Qalandars&#8217; Chief Operating Officer (COO) Sameen Rana, while speaking to Geo News, said that the team is hopeful of winning the trophy under pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The star pacer is completely fit to play in PSL 8 and is bowling for the national team these days in rhythm, said Rana.<\/p>\n<p>Shaheen encountered an injury during the World T20 final at the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melbourne_Cricket_Ground\">Melbourne Cricket Ground<\/a> (MCG). He returned to international cricket in the T20 world cup after a knee injury that he suffered during a two-match Test series against Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>The COO said that Lahore Qalandars is not under pressure as the team is a champion and because it has seen bad times in the past as well. &#8220;We are champions and will try to defend the title. We want to become the first team to defend the PSL title,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about the squad, Rana said that he is satisfied with the combination of the team. He said that he has tried to make the best team by keeping a balance. &#8220;Bowling is our strength and the batters are world-class,&#8221; Rana said.<\/p>\n<p>Right-handed English batsman Samit Patel has been replaced by Liam Dawson while Mohammad Hafeez has been replaced by Sikandar Raza, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the newly-appointed Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) managing committee&#8217;s chairman, Najam Sethi, Rana said that the PSL will achieve more success under his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Najam Sethi launched the PSL under difficult circumstances and PSL needs an administrator like him,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore Qalandars look to retain PSL title under Shaheen&#8217;s leadership. Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchise Lahore Qalandars are aiming to retain the title in the eighth edition of the tournament \u2014\u00a0 scheduled to begin on February 13, 2023. Lahore Qalandars&#8217; Chief Operating Officer (COO) Sameen Rana, while speaking to Geo News, said that the team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2598,7854,459,967,541,7783,4814],"class_list":["post-13309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-melbourne-cricket-ground","tag-najam-sethi","tag-pakistan-cricket-board","tag-pakistan-super-league","tag-psl","tag-psl-8","tag-sameen-rana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13309","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=13309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}