{"id":21858,"date":"2021-08-24T15:22:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T10:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=21858"},"modified":"2021-08-24T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T10:22:41","slug":"pakistan-afghanistan-odi-series-postponed-until-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/21858","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan-Afghanistan ODI series postponed until next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk:<\/p>\n<p>A one-day series between Pakistan and Afghanistan, scheduled for next month in Sri Lanka, has been postponed until 2022 following the Taliban\u2019s takeover of power in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>The two countries were due to play three ODI matches in early September in Sri Lanka, but the Pakistan Cricket Board said late on Monday that the Afghanistan Cricket Board had requested the series be postponed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPCB has accepted ACB\u2019s request to postpone next month\u2019s ODI series due to players\u2019 mental health issues, disruption in flight operations in Kabul, lack of broadcast facilities and increased COVID-19 cases in Sri Lanka,\u201d the PCB tweeted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PCB has accepted ACB&#39;s request to postpone next month\u2019s ODI series due to players\u2019 mental health issues, disruption in flight operations in Kabul, lack of broadcast facilities and increased Covid-19 cases in Sri Lanka. Both boards will try to reschedule the series in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealPCB\/status\/1429875290122096641?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBoth boards will try to reschedule the series in 2022.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With commercial flights from Kabul airport yet to resume, media reports said the Afghanistan team had been looking to travel to Pakistan by road and fly to Colombo via Dubai. But the logistical challenges increased after Sri Lanka last week announced a 10-day lockdown to curb the spread of Covid-19, as surging infections and deaths overwhelm the island\u2019s health system.<\/p>\n<p>The Taliban have said they would not interfere with men\u2019s cricket in the country; Afghanistan\u2019s biggest sporting success of recent years. The fate of the women\u2019s program, however, remains unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Web Desk: A one-day series between Pakistan and Afghanistan, scheduled for next month in Sri Lanka, has been postponed until 2022 following the Taliban\u2019s takeover of power in Afghanistan. The two countries were due to play three ODI matches in early September in Sri Lanka, but the Pakistan Cricket Board said late on Monday that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31,32,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-news","category-pakistan","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21860,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21858\/revisions\/21860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}