{"id":20148,"date":"2022-12-23T15:36:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T10:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=266897"},"modified":"2022-12-23T15:36:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T10:06:10","slug":"punjab-kings-seals-sikandar-raza-for-%e2%82%b950-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/punjab-kings-seals-sikandar-raza-for-%e2%82%b950-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Kings seals Sikandar Raza for \u20b950 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe\u2019s promising player Sikandar Raza secured his place in the IPL 2023 after Punjab Kings acquired the talented performer for \u20b950 lakh.<\/p>\n<p>Sikandar Raza, a veteran Zimbabwe all-rounder, has been in excellent form in white-ball cricket over the last year or so. The 36-year-old held his own against some of the game\u2019s biggest names in Australia\u2019s T20 World Cup, earning praise from Australian legend Ricky Ponting.<\/p>\n<p>During the T20 World Cup, the right-handed batter smashed 219 runs at a strike rate of 147.97 in eight matches. He took 10 wickets at an average of 15.60 with his deft off-spin. Following his outstanding performance, he was named to the majority of the expert-selected T20 World Cup 2022 XIs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe\u2019s promising player Sikandar Raza secured his place in the IPL 2023 after Punjab Kings acquired the talented performer for\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":40760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1462],"class_list":["post-20148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-punjab-kings"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20148","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}