{"id":5936,"date":"2023-04-05T10:16:24","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T04:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=296056"},"modified":"2023-04-05T10:16:24","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T04:46:24","slug":"pak-vs-nz-fast-bowler-shaheen-afridi-returns-for-white-ball-series-after-4-month-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/pak-vs-nz-fast-bowler-shaheen-afridi-returns-for-white-ball-series-after-4-month-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"PAK vs NZ: Fast bowler Shaheen Afridi returns for white ball series after 4-month absence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand will be touring Pakistan for the incredible white-ball series. Good news for Pakistan \u2013 Shaheen Afridi returns after 4 months.<\/p>\n<section class=\"cb-nws-dtl-itms\">\n<p class=\"cb-nws-para\">The first three Twenty20 Internationals of the series will be played on April 14 in Lahore, followed by the concluding two Twenty20 Internationals in Rawalpindi. The first two One-Day Internationals will also be held in Rawalpindi before the sides finish the series in Karachi with three more ODIs.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>Following a four-month absence, Shaheen Afridi has rejoined the national team as Pakistan\u2019s officials have chosen a full-strength lineup for the upcoming white-ball series against New Zealand at home. Babar Azam, who was recently rested for the brief series against Afghanistan, will now serve as skipper.<\/p>\n<p>Shaheen hasn\u2019t played for Pakistan since the T20 World Cup in Australia last year because he was finishing up his recovery from a knee injury he had suffered. In the Pakistan Super League, where he helped Lahore Qalandars win the championship, he made a successful return.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand will be touring Pakistan for the incredible white-ball series. Good news for Pakistan \u2013 Shaheen Afridi returns after\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":28869,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3424,1015,948],"class_list":["post-5936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-pakistan","tag-pcb","tag-shaheen-afridi"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936","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=5936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}