{"id":4149,"date":"2022-08-21T17:10:55","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T11:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=239522"},"modified":"2022-08-21T17:10:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T11:40:55","slug":"asia-cup-2022-can-mir-hamza-be-a-surprising-replacement-for-shaheen-afridi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/asia-cup-2022-can-mir-hamza-be-a-surprising-replacement-for-shaheen-afridi\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup 2022: Can Mir Hamza be a surprising replacement for Shaheen Afridi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Due to a knee injury, Shaheen Shah Afridi will not play in the Asia Cup or the seven-match T20I series against England at home in September. He faces a battle against time to be ready for the T20 World Cup, which begins in October, after the PCB\u2019s medical advisory council suggested \u201cfour to six weeks recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Every player of our playing 11 is a match winner. Wishing my team the best of luck for upcoming Asia Cup. <\/p>\n<p>To the fans, keep me in your prayers for my quick recovery. I'll be back soon Inshallah <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jW9gGpWWQX\">pic.twitter.com\/jW9gGpWWQX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shaheen Afridi (@iShaheenAfridi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iShaheenAfridi\/status\/1560968079676416000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The next best choice, if selectors are searching for a like-for-like replacement for Afridi, seems to be fellow left-armer Mir Hamza. Hamza has only ever appeared in one match for Pakistan, a lone Test against Australia in Abu Dhabi in 2018. However, he has recently taken part in a warm-up game in Lahore against Babar Azam\u2019s ODI team, which is sure to be on selectors\u2019 minds. A call-up for Hamza may come as a big surprise to some, but the 29-year-old is unquestionably the finest choice if selectors are looking for a left-arm quick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to a knee injury, Shaheen Shah Afridi will not play in the Asia Cup or the seven-match T20I series\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":27170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1585,1015,948],"class_list":["post-4149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-asia-cup","tag-pcb","tag-shaheen-afridi"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149","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=4149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}