{"id":95746,"date":"2025-12-30T15:51:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=95746"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T10:51:57","slug":"shaheen-afridi-to-return-to-pakistan-from-the-bbl-after-picking-up-knee-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/shaheen-afridi-to-return-to-pakistan-from-the-bbl-after-picking-up-knee-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaheen Afridi to return to Pakistan from the BBL after picking up knee injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: A knee injury has ended <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/shaheen-afridi-suffers-knee-injury-big-bash-participation-uncertain\/\">Shaheen Shah Afridi&#8217;s<\/a> stint with Brisbane Heat in the BBL. The PCB has called him back from Australia to start his rehabilitation, with an eye on the T20 World Cup in February-March in India and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from Heat said Afridi &#8220;will be further reviewed upon the team&#8217;s return from Adelaide&#8221;, where they will play their next game on Wednesday against Adelaide Strikers, suggesting that Afridi might return to Pakistan after that process.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, &#8220;I&#8217;m massively thankful to the Brisbane Heat team and fans for showering me with immense love and support,&#8221; Afridi wrote on his social media handle. &#8220;Due to an unexpected injury, I have been called back by the PCB and will have to take a rehab. Hopefully, I will be back in the fields soon. Meanwhile, I will be cheering for the amazing team.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heat are also waiting on Tom Alsop (knee injury) and Nathan McSweeney (ankle injury), who have both resumed training.<\/p>\n<p>In what was his first season in the BBL, Afridi was part of a strong contingent of Pakistani cricketers, including the likes of Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan and Haris Rauf. But he could play just four games and didn&#8217;t have a particularly memorable time of it: just two wickets and an economy rate of 11.19.<\/p>\n<p>That aside, in what was his first match for Heat, Afridi was removed from the Heat attack for what was deemed dangerous bowling, after he sent down two waist-high full-tosses, to Tim Seifert and Oliver Peake, in the 18th over of Melbourne Renegades&#8217; innings.<\/p>\n<p>Afridi appeared to have picked up the injury while bowling in the 14th over of Adelaide Strikers&#8217; chase of Heat&#8217;s 179 for 9 on December 27 when he limped off pointing to his right knee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY: A knee injury has ended Shaheen Shah Afridi&#8217;s stint with Brisbane Heat in the BBL. The PCB has called him back from Australia to start his rehabilitation, with an eye on the T20 World Cup in February-March in India and Sri Lanka. A statement from Heat said Afridi &#8220;will be further reviewed upon the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":94104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33358],"class_list":["post-95746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-shaheen-afridi-to-return-to-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95746","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95747,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95746\/revisions\/95747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}