{"id":88893,"date":"2025-10-20T22:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=88893"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:04:57","slug":"pcb-coins-shaheen-afridis-name-for-odi-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pcb-coins-shaheen-afridis-name-for-odi-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"PCB coins Shaheen Afridi&#8217;s name for ODI Captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/tri-nation-series-to-continue-despite-afghanistans-withdrawal-pcb\/\">Pakistan Cricket Board<\/a> (PCB) on Monday appointed pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi as the new Pakistan men&#8217;s ODI captain in place of Mohammad Rizwan.<\/p>\n<p>As a part of his first task, the left-arm seamer will captain team in the three-match ODI series against South Africa, which is scheduled to be played at the Iqbal Stadium in Faisalabad from November 4 to 8.<\/p>\n<p>As per PCB, Shaheen&#8217;s appointment for the upcoming series was finalized today, during a meeting held in Islamabad .<\/p>\n<p>The statement said that the meeting was attended by white-ball head coach Mike Hesson, Director of High Performance Aqib Javed, and members of the selection committee.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old fast bowler has played 66 ODIs and 92 T20Is for Pakistan, in which he has taken a total of 249 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>In 32 Test matches, which do not include the ongoing second Test against South Africa at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium, Shaheen has taken 120 wickets.<\/p>\n<p>Shaheen Shah has previously led Pakistan in 5 T20 Internationals against New Zealand on their home ground in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that before him, wicketkeeper-batsman Muhammad Rizwan was leading the national ODI team; however, the team failed to perform well under his leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Monday appointed pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi as the new Pakistan men&#8217;s ODI captain in place of Mohammad Rizwan. As a part of his first task, the left-arm seamer will captain team in the three-match ODI series against South Africa, which is scheduled to be played at the Iqbal Stadium [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":28909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7853,1163,31803],"class_list":["post-88893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-odi","tag-shaheen-afridi","tag-odi-captain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88893","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=88893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88923,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88893\/revisions\/88923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}