{"id":8194,"date":"2024-03-08T14:09:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T08:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=419654"},"modified":"2024-03-08T14:09:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T08:39:56","slug":"zimbabwe-cricket-director-hamilton-masakadza-steps-down-amid-t20-world-cup-disappointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/zimbabwe-cricket-director-hamilton-masakadza-steps-down-amid-t20-world-cup-disappointment\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Cricket Director Hamilton Masakadza steps down amid T20 World Cup disappointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton Masakadza, the former Zimbabwe cricket star, has announced his resignation from the position of Director of Cricket at Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) following the team\u2019s failure to secure qualification for the 2024 ICC Men\u2019s T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Masakadza\u2019s decision to step down comes in the wake of Zimbabwe\u2019s disappointing performance in the Africa Qualifier tournament, where they finished third. Despite early promise, losses to Namibia and Uganda dashed their hopes of progressing to the T20 World Cup, with Namibia and Uganda securing the qualifying spots instead.<\/p>\n<p>Masakadza\u2019s departure marks the end of his tenure as Director of Cricket, with his resignation taking effect this week. Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) confirmed Masakadza\u2019s decision on Thursday, March 7th, highlighting the significant impact of the team\u2019s failure to qualify for the prestigious T20 tournament as a contributing factor to his resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hamilton Masakadza, the former Zimbabwe cricket star, has announced his resignation from the position of Director of Cricket at Zimbabwe\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":31068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3757,2727],"class_list":["post-8194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-icc-t20-world-cup-2024","tag-zimbabwe-cricket-team"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194","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\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}