{"id":6492,"date":"2019-07-13T15:10:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T10:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=6492"},"modified":"2019-07-13T15:10:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T10:10:08","slug":"rashid-khan-named-afghanistan-captain-across-all-three-formats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/6492","title":{"rendered":"Rashid Khan named Afghanistan captain across all three formats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Afghanistan have named 20-year-old leg-spinner Rashid Khan as their new captain across all three formats.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after Afghanistan&#8217;s disappointing World Cup campaign, where they lost all nine matches.<\/p>\n<p>Asghar Afghan was sacked as captain on the eve of the tournament with Gulbadin Naib taking over the 50-over captaincy and Rahmat Shah appointed for Tests.<\/p>\n<p>Rashid will take over from both having already been named Twenty20 captain.<\/p>\n<p>Rashid is Afghanistan&#8217;s most high profile player, having starred in various global T20 leagues, and is the number one ranked bowling in T20 cricket.<\/p>\n<p>He has played in both of Afghanistan&#8217;s Tests since they were awarded Test status in 2017 and has also featured in 68 ODIs and 38 T20s for Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s chaotic World Cup was highlighted by a public row between coach Phil Simmons and chief selector Dawlat Ahmadzai.<\/p>\n<p>Rashid&#8217;s first match as captain will be a one-off Test against Bangladesh in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan have named 20-year-old leg-spinner Rashid Khan as their new captain across all three formats. The move comes after Afghanistan&#8217;s disappointing World Cup campaign, where they lost all nine matches. Asghar Afghan was sacked as captain on the eve of the tournament with Gulbadin Naib taking over the 50-over captaincy and Rahmat Shah appointed for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,31,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492","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=6492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6495,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6492\/revisions\/6495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}