{"id":2862,"date":"2021-10-31T10:44:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T05:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=163371"},"modified":"2021-10-31T10:44:39","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T05:14:39","slug":"afghanistans-former-cricket-captain-asghar-afghan-all-set-to-retire-from-all-formats-of-the-game-will-play-his-final-game-against-namibia-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/afghanistans-former-cricket-captain-asghar-afghan-all-set-to-retire-from-all-formats-of-the-game-will-play-his-final-game-against-namibia-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan\u2019s former cricket captain Asghar Afghan all set to retire from all formats of the game; will play his final game against Namibia on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghanistan Cricket Board has released a statement on Twitter, that their former captain and 33-year-old player Asghar Afghan will retire from all formats of cricket after his side\u2019s match against Namibia on Sunday. The Right-handed batter made his debut for Afghanistan in2009. Since then, he has played 114 ODIs, 6 Tests, and 74 TOIs for his side. He has scored a cumulative total of 4215 runs across all formats.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Afghanistan\u2019s ex captain Asghar Afghan who holds the highest winning streak as a captain in T20 internationals surpassing Indian legend Ms Dhoni by one extra win, decides to bid farewell with all formats of cricket in Afghanistan\u2019s third match against Namibia at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/T20WorldCup?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@T20WorldCup<\/a>.<br \/>1\/1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4nxfeoctjj\">pic.twitter.com\/4nxfeoctjj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Afghanistan Cricket Board (@ACBofficials) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACBofficials\/status\/1454494286104473600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The post by ACB on Twitter read, \u201cAfghanistan\u2019s ex-captain Asghar Afghan who holds the highest winning streak as a captain in T20 Internationals\u2026 decides to bid farewell with all formats of cricket in Afghanistan\u2019s third game against Namibia.\u201d The board further added that they respect the player\u2019s decision and showed gratitude towards the service he has provided for his country. They also said that it will be hard for a youngster to fill Afghan\u2019s shoes.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan team thus far has had a mixed bag of results. They played this first game against Scotland in which they posted a mountain of a total for Scotland to chase, and then bundled the side for just 60 runs to win the game by a whopping margin of 130 runs. Their second game against Pakistan, however, was mighty tougher and they came close to victory but a magnificent knock by Asif Ali denied them a thrilling victory. They will be hoping to win the third game against Namibia to bid their captain a winning farewell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Afghanistan team thus far has had a mixed bag of results. They played this first game against Scotland in which they posted a mountain of a total for Scotland to chase, and then bundled the side for just 60 runs to win the game by a whopping margin of 130 runs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":25946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1254,1561,2175],"class_list":["post-2862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-afghanistan-cricket-board","tag-asghar-afghan","tag-icc-t20-world-cup-2021"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862","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\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}