{"id":5933,"date":"2023-04-02T14:09:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T08:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=294878"},"modified":"2023-04-02T14:16:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T08:46:01","slug":"former-india-allrounder-salim-durani-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/former-india-allrounder-salim-durani-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former India allrounder Salim Durani passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The veteran all-rounder for India, Salim Durani, passed away on Sunday, April 2, at the age of 88.<\/p>\n<p>Durani, a 1934 Kabul native who played in 29 Test matches between 1960 and 1973, amassed 1202 runs\u2014including 107 fifty-plus runs\u2014and 75 wickets with his left-arm orthodox pitch. Durani made 8545 runs in 170 first-class games, including 14 hundreds, and claimed 484 wickets, including 21 five-wicket hauls and two ten-wicket hauls.<\/p>\n<p>Salim Durani breathed his last Sunday morning at his Jamnagar house due to age-related ailments, confirmed his family sources.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I had the opportunity to interact with the great Salim Durani Ji on various occasions. One such occasion was in January 2004 at a programme in Jamnagar, in which a statue of the great cricketer Vinoo Mankad Ji was inaugurated. Here are some memories from the programme. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/alESpsVCcx\">pic.twitter.com\/alESpsVCcx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/narendramodi\/status\/1642433382310346752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The veteran all-rounder for India, Salim Durani, passed away on Sunday, April 2, at the age of 88. Durani, a\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3546,534],"class_list":["post-5933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-bcci","tag-rip"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933","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=5933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}