{"id":5652,"date":"2023-03-01T17:45:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T12:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=284922"},"modified":"2023-03-01T17:45:01","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T12:15:01","slug":"she-wants-to-make-way-for-a-younger-colleague-pcb-chairman-on-bismahs-resignation-from-captaincy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/she-wants-to-make-way-for-a-younger-colleague-pcb-chairman-on-bismahs-resignation-from-captaincy\/","title":{"rendered":"She wants to make way for a younger colleague: PCB Chairman on Bismah\u2019s resignation from captaincy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, \u00a0Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced that Bismah Maroof has decided to step down as captain of the Pakistan women\u2019s team but will still be available for selection as a player.<\/p>\n<p>Najam Sethi, chair of PCB Management Committee, congratulated Maroof on her achievements, adding,\u00a0\u201cI congratulate and thank Bismah Maroof for her services as the captain of the national women\u2019s side. Bismah has been an inspiration for millions of girls and has been a catalyst for a positive change. With her immense dedication and hard work, she has shown that women can continue to follow their passions and dreams.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have accepted resignation of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maroof_bismah?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@maroof_bismah<\/a> Captain of Pakistan Women\u2019s National Team. She wants to make way for a younger colleague. But happily she will continue to play for Pakistan and bring laurels for her country.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Najam Sethi (@najamsethi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/najamsethi\/status\/1630666995594305537?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 28, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has always put her country before herself and that is underscored by how she has offered to help in smoothening the leadership transition ahead of an exciting and jam-packed season. I am sure her presence in the Pakistan dressing room will continue to be a source of inspiration to our young cricketers and she will continue to serve Pakistan with honour and pride as she has been doing since she was a teenager.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan won 16 of 34 One-Day Internationals (ODIs) and 27 of 62 T20 Internationals while she was the captain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, \u00a0Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced that Bismah Maroof has decided to step down as captain of the Pakistan\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3406,3463,3400,1015],"class_list":["post-5652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-bismah-maroof","tag-najam-sethi","tag-pakistan-women","tag-pcb"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652","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=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}