{"id":95829,"date":"2025-12-31T13:47:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=95829"},"modified":"2025-12-31T13:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T08:47:31","slug":"afghanistan-announces-squad-for-t20-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/afghanistan-announces-squad-for-t20-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan announces squad for T20 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Afghanistan has announced the squad for the<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/england-announces-squad-for-t20-world-cup\/\"> T20 World Cup<\/a> and the series against the West Indies.<\/p>\n<p>The National Selection Committee of the Afghanistan Cricket Board has announced a 15-member squad, Rashid Khan will lead the Afghan team in the World Cup and the series against the West Indies.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan team will play three T20 matches against the West in the United Arab Emirates, which will be hosted by Afghanistan from January 19 to 22.<\/p>\n<p>All-rounder Gulbuddin Naib and fast bowler Naveenul Haq have returned to the Afghan squad.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghan squad includes Rashid Khan (captain), Ibrahim Zadran (vice-captain), Mohammad Ishaq, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Siddiqullah Atul, Shahidullah Kamal, Darwish Rasuli, Azmatullah Omarzai, Gulbuddin Naib, Mohammad Nabi, Noor Ahmed, Mujeeb-ur-Rehman, Naveenul Haq, Fazal Haq Farooqi and Abdullah Ahmadzai.<\/p>\n<p>AM Ghazanfar, Ijaz Ahmadzai and Ziaur Rehman Sharifi have been kept in the reserves. Afghanistan will play its first match in the World Cup against New Zealand in Chennai on February 8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: Afghanistan has announced the squad for the T20 World Cup and the series against the West Indies. The National Selection Committee of the Afghanistan Cricket Board has announced a 15-member squad, Rashid Khan will lead the Afghan team in the World Cup and the series against the West Indies. The Afghanistan team will play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":40538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1254,33372],"class_list":["post-95829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-t20-world-cup","tag-afghanistan-announces-squad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95829","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=95829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95830,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95829\/revisions\/95830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}