{"id":1387,"date":"2020-10-06T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T06:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=59945"},"modified":"2020-10-06T12:00:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T06:30:37","slug":"afghanistan-batsman-najeeb-tarakai-passes-away-after-a-fatal-road-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/afghanistan-batsman-najeeb-tarakai-passes-away-after-a-fatal-road-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan batsman Najeeb Tarakai passes away after a fatal road accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Najeeb Tarakai, Afghanistani batsman passed away on Tuesday in an unfortunate accident. The batsman was hit by a speeding car while crossing a road. He was severely injured and slipped into a coma right after. The news of his accident was announced by the twitter handle of Afghanistan cricket board.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet read \u201cACB and Afghanistan Cricket Loving Nation mourns the heartbreaking & grievous loss of its aggressive opening batsman & a very fine human being Najeeb Tarakai (29) who lost his life to tragic traffic accident leaving us all shocked! May Allah Shower His Mercy on him.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ACB and Afghanistan Cricket Loving Nation mourns the heart breaking & grievous loss of its aggressive opening batsman & a very fine human being Najeeb Tarakai (29) who lost his life to tragic traffic accident leaving us all shocked! <\/p>\n<p>May Allah Shower His Mercy on him <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ne1EWtymnO\">pic.twitter.com\/Ne1EWtymnO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Afghanistan Cricket Board (@ACBofficials) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACBofficials\/status\/1313305399580389377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He made his debut in 2014 against Bangladesh during the Asia cup. He has played 12 T20\u2019s for the nation and scored a highest of 90 against Ireland. He later did not feature in any other tournament due to his performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Najeeb Tarakai, Afghanistani batsman passed away on Tuesday in an unfortunate accident. The batsman was hit by a speeding car\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":24498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[768],"class_list":["post-1387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-afghanistan"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}