{"id":1659,"date":"2013-07-09T17:20:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T11:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartabangla.com\/english\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2013-07-09T17:20:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T11:20:45","slug":"pakistan-off-to-wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/pakistan-off-to-wi\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan off to WI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/misbah.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1660\" alt=\"misbah\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/misbah-300x236.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a>BartaBangla Desk :: <\/strong><span style=\"font-size: small\">Pakistan\u2019s one-day squad left for the Caribbean with captain Misbahul Haq hoping to reverse the team\u2019s dwindling fortunes in the limited-over matches.<br \/>\nPakistan will play five one-day and two Twenty20 matches on the tour, with the first match in Guyana on July 14.<br \/>\nMisbah will lead the one-day team while Mohammad Hafeez will skipper the Twenty20 side.<br \/>\nMisbah said the tour was important as it would help the team regain their confidence after a humiliating Champions Trophy last month, in which Pakistan lost all three matches.<br \/>\n\u201cWe will do our best to play hard and positive cricket and ensure that a poor show in the Champions Trophy is behind us,\u201d Misbah said before their departure late Sunday.<br \/>\n\u201cThe squad is focused on putting up a good show which will help in ending the disappointment of our fans and bring the confidence back.\u201d<br \/>\nMisbah said they faced a challenging proposition playing the Windies on their home soil.<br \/>\n\u201cWest Indies is a tough opposition and their batting strength is aggressive but I am sure that our team will do well in all three departments of the game,\u201d said Misbah.<br \/>\nDashing all-rounder Shahid Afridi was recalled in the 16-man squad after missing the Champions Trophy in England, while there were also recalls for Umar Akmal and Ahmed Shahzad.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; BartaBangla Desk :: Pakistan\u2019s one-day squad left for the Caribbean with captain Misbahul Haq hoping to reverse the team\u2019s dwindling fortunes in the limited-over matches. Pakistan will play five one-day and two Twenty20 matches on the tour, with the first match in Guyana on July 14. Misbah will lead the one-day team while Mohammad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartabangla.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}