{"id":2652,"date":"2021-08-19T17:26:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T11:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=139672"},"modified":"2021-08-19T17:26:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T11:56:31","slug":"pakistan-cricket-board-receive-positive-signal-from-the-new-regime-in-afghanistan-to-go-ahead-with-the-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/pakistan-cricket-board-receive-positive-signal-from-the-new-regime-in-afghanistan-to-go-ahead-with-the-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan Cricket Board receive positive signal from the new regime in Afghanistan to go ahead with the series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is confident that the political disturbance in Afghanistan shall not affect the ODI series. It is said that the Taliban authorities have granted permission to the national team to play the scheduled fixtures in Sri Lanka.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>An anonymous source in the PCB has claimed to have gotten a positive response from the counterparts in Afghanistan ahead of the series as reported by PTI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe series appears to be on and the indications we have got is that the Taliban authorities have given green light for the series,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe are going ahead with our plans and we will announce our squad as soon as the second test against the West Indies ends on 24th August,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Afghan players have begun to train in the country\u2019s capital while PCB has announced that a practice camp is to be set up in Lahore from August 21st to the 28th for the series that is scheduled to leave for Sri Lanka on the 29th of this month.<\/p>\n<p>It is said that the new regime in Afghanistan have sent out a message to the international community by letting the cricket series go ahead after stating that there was no better way to show their soft image to the community.<\/p>\n<p>The leading Afghan players include the likes of Rashid Khan, Rehman and a few others who are already in England participating in the \u2018Hundred\u2019 tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Pakistan Cricket Board source has been given a positive signal from their counterparts in Afghanistan about the series to take place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":25738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[768,1254,1137,1264],"class_list":["post-2652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-afghanistan","tag-afghanistan-cricket-board","tag-pakistan-cricket-board","tag-pakistan-cricket-team"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652","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\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}