{"id":43936,"date":"2026-02-10T19:18:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=43936"},"modified":"2026-02-10T19:18:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T13:48:57","slug":"pak-vs-usa-t20-world-cup-ex-pakistan-cricketer-ehsan-adil-makes-t20i-debut-against-former-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/t20-world-cup\/pak-vs-usa-t20-world-cup-ex-pakistan-cricketer-ehsan-adil-makes-t20i-debut-against-former-team\/","title":{"rendered":"PAK vs USA T20 World Cup: Ex-Pakistan cricketer Ehsan Adil makes T20I debut against former team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"193\" data-end=\"517\">Former Pakistan fast bowler <strong data-start=\"221\" data-end=\"262\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Ehsan Adil<\/span><\/span><\/strong> created a rare moment in international cricket on Tuesday as he turned out for the <strong data-start=\"346\" data-end=\"387\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">United States of America<\/span><\/span><\/strong> against <strong data-start=\"396\" data-end=\"437\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Pakistan<\/span><\/span><\/strong> in a Group A clash of the <strong data-start=\"464\" data-end=\"505\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup 2026<\/span><\/span><\/strong> at Colombo.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"519\" data-end=\"848\">Adil, who previously represented Pakistan in <strong data-start=\"564\" data-end=\"592\">three Tests and six ODIs<\/strong>, made his <strong data-start=\"603\" data-end=\"642\">T20 International debut for the USA<\/strong> against his former national side. His last appearance for Pakistan came in <strong data-start=\"718\" data-end=\"744\">July 2015 in Sri Lanka<\/strong>, marking a gap of more than a decade before returning to the international stage in a different jersey.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"850\" data-end=\"1227\">Such cross-national appearances remain uncommon in world cricket, especially at major ICC tournaments, making Adil\u2019s outing one of the notable talking points of the match. His debut also highlights the growing presence of experienced subcontinent-born players in associate nations, particularly the USA, as they continue to strengthen their competitiveness on the global stage.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1229\" data-end=\"1253\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistan fast bowler Ehsan Adil created a rare moment in international cricket on Tuesday as he turned out for\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":43940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4641],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-t20-world-cup"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43936","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=43936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43941,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43936\/revisions\/43941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}