{"id":2734,"date":"2021-09-10T12:33:52","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T07:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=148288"},"modified":"2021-09-10T12:33:52","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T07:03:52","slug":"rashid-khan-steps-down-as-afghnistan-captain-mohammad-nabi-takes-charge-for-icc-t20-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/rashid-khan-steps-down-as-afghnistan-captain-mohammad-nabi-takes-charge-for-icc-t20-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Rashid Khan steps down as Afghnistan captain, Mohammad Nabi takes charge for ICC T20 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Rashid Khan relinquished his captaincy, all rounder Mohammad Nabiya has been selected as the new captain of the team for the upcoming T20 World Cup in the UAE.<\/p>\n<p>Nabi tweeted after the appointment, saying that at this critical stage, he admires the decision of Afghanistan Cricket Board for their announcement of being the captain of the National Cricket Team in the T20 Forma and added that together they will present a great picture of the country in the upcoming T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At this critical stage, I admire the decision of ACB for the announcement of leading the National Cricket Team in T20 Format. InshaAllah together we will present a great picture of the Nation in the upcoming T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mohammad Nabi (@MohammadNabi007) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MohammadNabi007\/status\/1436074771444346894?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rashid Khan, who is the world\u2019s top ranked bowler in the T20I format decides to relinquish his post being the skipper of the team as he claimed that his \u201cconsent\u201d was not taken while the selection process of the national team was going on. Rashid put out a statement on Twitter saying that as a captain and a responsible person, he reserved the right to be a part of the selection of the team but neither the selection committee nor the ACB had obtained his consent for the team which had been announced by ACB media. He added by saying that he is taking the decision to step down from the captaincy of the Afghanistan national side in the Twenty20 format but is still proud to play for his country nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>Wicketkeeper batsmen Mohammad Shahzad has been named in the squad. The two reserve players are Afasr Zazai and Farid Ahmad.<\/p>\n<p>After domestic turmoil in the country due to the Taliban\u2019s takeover of the country, the team\u2019s future prospects look unsure as Australia have already decided not to play a test match with them due to the extremist group\u2019s ruling about women\u2019s sports not being allowed in this country.<\/p>\n<p>But for now, they will have to focus on their series against Pakistan and will be placed in Group 2 along with heavyweights India and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan T20 Squad: Rashid Khan, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Hazratullah Zazai, Usman Ghani, Asghar Afghan, Mohammad Nabi, Najibullah Zadran, Hashmatullah Shahidi, Mohammad Shahzad, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Karim Janat, Gulbadin Naib, Naveen ul Haq, Hamid Hassan, Sharafuddin Ashraf, Dawlat Zadran, Shapoor Zadran, Qais Ahmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Rashid Khan relinquished his captaincy, all rounder Mohammad Nabiya has been selected as the new captain of the team for the upcoming T20 World Cup in the UAE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":204,"featured_media":25819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1254,2175,609,781],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-afghanistan-cricket-board","tag-icc-t20-world-cup-2021","tag-mohammad-nabi","tag-rashid-khan"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","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\/204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}