{"id":92415,"date":"2025-11-29T14:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=92415"},"modified":"2025-11-29T14:05:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T09:05:41","slug":"leg-spinner-maaz-khan-to-pursue-cricket-career-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/leg-spinner-maaz-khan-to-pursue-cricket-career-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Leg Spinner Maaz Khan to pursue cricket career in  Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Former Lahore Qalandars leg-spinner Maaz Khan has decided to part ways from Pakistani cricket and pursue his career in <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/sl-vs-zim-zimbabwe-fall-as-sri-lanka-cruise-to-9-wicket-win\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was part of the franchise\u2019s winning squad in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Maaz Khan is a right-arm leg-break, originally from the Bajaur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n<p>He made his T20 debut for Lahore Qalandars in the 2018 Abu Dhabi T20 Trophy. Maaz played 3 matches with 2 wickets in the PSL.<\/p>\n<p>He also played List A cricket for the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cricket team during the 2021\u201322 season. He came through the Qalandars\u2019 talent-development program.<\/p>\n<p>Though still young and once viewed as a promising spin prospect, Maaz\u2019s decision to leave Pakistan\u2019s cricket circuit comes at a time when many players re-evaluate their career trajectories.<\/p>\n<p>He carries the experience of PSL, domestic cricket, and the grooming he received at the Qalandars while starting his new career in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, many players permanently left Pakistan for other countries, such as Kaleem Sana (Canada), Bilal Khan (Oman), and Riazat Ali Shah (Uganda), who moved for better opportunities or limited domestic chances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Former Lahore Qalandars leg-spinner Maaz Khan has decided to part ways from Pakistani cricket and pursue his career in Zimbabwe. He was part of the franchise\u2019s winning squad in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2022. Maaz Khan is a right-arm leg-break, originally from the Bajaur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He made his T20 debut for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":92416,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92415","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=92415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92417,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92415\/revisions\/92417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}