{"id":22312,"date":"2024-01-08T15:35:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T10:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=22312"},"modified":"2024-01-08T15:35:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T10:35:07","slug":"muhammad-rizwan-appointed-as-vice-captain-of-t20-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/muhammad-rizwan-appointed-as-vice-captain-of-t20-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Muhammad Rizwan appointed as vice-captain of T20 team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Rizwan will replace Shadab Khan in T20 format and take over as deputy to skipper Shaheen Shah Afridi.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Pakistan Cricket Board named wicket-keeper and batter Muhammad Rizwan as the T20 team&#8217;s vice-captain.<\/p>\n<p>The board announced the development of X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;@iMRizwanPak has been appointed vice-captain of Pakistan&#8217;s T20I team,&#8221; the PCB announced in a post.<\/p>\n<p>Rizwan will replace Shadab Khan in the team, serving as a deputy to skipper Shaheen Shah Afridi in the shortest format of cricket.<\/p>\n<p>It should be mentioned that Rizwan was recently preferred by former Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi for the position of captain over left-arm fast Shaheen for the T20 team, which raised many eyebrows.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/with-six-wickets-from-aamer-jamal-pakistan-dismiss-australia-for-299-runs.html\">With six wickets from Aamer Jamal, Pakistan dismiss Australia for 299 runs<\/a><\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nSpeaking at an event in Australia, Afridi praised the wicketkeeper-batsman and chose him over his son-in-law Shaheen for the T20 captaincy.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/australia-easily-wins-a-second-series-against-pakistan.html\">Australia easily wins a second series against Pakistan<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The legendary all-rounder of his period stated, &#8220;[I respect Rizwan&#8217;s] hard effort and concentrate level. His strongest talent, which I like the most, is his ability to focus solely on his game and pay no attention to who is doing what or not. &#8220;He is a real fighter!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wanted to see him [Rizwan] as the T20 captain, but by mistake, Shaheen became the skipper,&#8221; Afridi joked, looking at the left-arm quick who was sitting behind him at the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muhammad Rizwan will replace Shadab Khan in T20 format and take over as deputy to skipper Shaheen Shah Afridi. On Monday, the Pakistan Cricket Board named wicket-keeper and batter Muhammad Rizwan as the T20 team&#8217;s vice-captain. The board announced the development of X, formerly known as Twitter. &#8220;@iMRizwanPak has been appointed vice-captain of Pakistan&#8217;s T20I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,21,2,6],"tags":[6723,10230,9226,364],"class_list":["post-22312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","category-sports","tag-muhammad-rizwan","tag-pct","tag-t20","tag-pcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22312","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}