{"id":54619,"date":"2024-11-01T16:58:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T11:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=54619"},"modified":"2024-11-01T16:58:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T11:58:54","slug":"babar-azams-bat-displayed-at-iconic-melbourne-cricket-grounds-long-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/babar-azams-bat-displayed-at-iconic-melbourne-cricket-grounds-long-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Babar Azam&#8217;s bat displayed at iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground\u2019s Long Room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: In another feather in his cap, Pakistan&#8217;s star batter Babar Azam&#8217;s bat has been displayed at iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground\u2019s (MCG) Long Room.<\/p>\n<p>The prestigious long room at Australia&#8217;s MCG holds the bats of icon cricketers,\u00a0Don Bradman, David Boon, Jack Hobbs, and Brian Lara.<\/p>\n<p>The MCG management extended an invitation to Pakistan&#8217;s former captain to contribute his bat used during Pakistan\u2019s 2022 T20 World Cup final against England, which Azam accepted.<\/p>\n<p>The ace batter who is currently present in Australia for an ODI and T20I series expressed honor to be present among the greatest cricketers at iconic MCG.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The honour is all ours.<br \/>\nThank you, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/babarazam258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@babarazam258<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aQIcG8JJsD\">https:\/\/t.co\/aQIcG8JJsD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Melbourne Cricket Ground (@MCG) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MCG\/status\/1852295335391240619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Taking on X, he wrote, &#8220;<span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Honored to have my bat among the legends at the MCG <\/span><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Long Room.&#8221; <\/span>The MCG responded, &#8220;The honor is all ours. Thank you, Babar Azam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r\">\n<div class=\"css-175oi2r r-1s2bzr4\">\n<div id=\"id__13or96jpqywa\" class=\"css-146c3p1 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-1inkyih r-16dba41 r-bnwqim r-135wba7\" dir=\"auto\" lang=\"en\" data-testid=\"tweetText\">After donating his bat on Friday, Azam said, honestly, it means a lot to me because I played a World Cup final using this bat. &#8220;I have many good memories here at the MCG [\u2026] it is one of the best grounds of my career. Having my bat placed here alongside those of great players is truly a privilege,&#8221; he added.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Notably, Babar recently stepped down as Pakistan\u2019s white-ball captain and was replaced by Mohammad Rizwan. He was also dropped from Pakistan&#8217;s squad for the remaining two Tests of the three-match series against England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE: In another feather in his cap, Pakistan&#8217;s star batter Babar Azam&#8217;s bat has been displayed at iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground\u2019s (MCG) Long Room. The prestigious long room at Australia&#8217;s MCG holds the bats of icon cricketers,\u00a0Don Bradman, David Boon, Jack Hobbs, and Brian Lara. The MCG management extended an invitation to Pakistan&#8217;s former captain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":54623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[694,23570],"class_list":["post-54619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-babar-azam","tag-mcg-long-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54619","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54624,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54619\/revisions\/54624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}