{"id":1679016,"date":"2022-10-08T04:53:12","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T08:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1679016"},"modified":"2022-10-08T04:53:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T08:53:22","slug":"cricket-pakistans-afridi-to-be-fit-for-world-cup-opener-raja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cricket-pakistans-afridi-to-be-fit-for-world-cup-opener-raja\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Pakistan\u2019s Afridi to be fit for World Cup opener \u2013 Raja"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcricket-pakistans-afridi-to-be-fit-for-world-cup-opener-raja%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1679016&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) \u2013     Pakistan fast bowler Shaheen Afridi has made rapid progress from a knee injury and will be \u201cbattle-ready\u201d for their Twenty20 World Cup opener against arch-rivals India this month, the country\u2019s cricket board chief, Ramiz Raja, said.<\/p>\n<p>Afridi has been sidelined since sustaining a ligament injury to his right knee during a test match in Sri Lanka in July and missed the Asia Cup as well as the home series against England.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI had a chat with Shaheen \u2026 and he said he hasn\u2019t felt this good in ages. So, the progress is very good,\u201d Raja told Dawn news.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said he\u2019d be battle-ready soon, it\u2019s great news for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old has been Pakistan\u2019s pace spearhead, whose express speed and ability to generate bounce and bowl pin-point yorker make him such a feared bowler.<\/p>\n<p>Raja said they did not want to rush the left-arm bowler back into action considering how serious knee injuries could get.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA knee injury is quite technical and a delicate issue,\u201d  the former Pakistan captain said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were of the view that we won\u2019t take the risk until he was 110% fit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we spoke, Shaheen said, \u2018I\u2019m already 110%, so don\u2019t worry. I\u2019ll play practice matches too and will be ready for the match against India.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty in New Delhi; Editing by Clarence Fernandez)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/cricket-pakistans-afridi-to-be\/attachment\/file-photo-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-super-12\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9703K-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI9703K-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) \u2013 Pakistan fast bowler Shaheen Afridi has made rapid progress from a knee injury and will be \u201cbattle-ready\u201d for their Twenty20 World Cup opener against arch-rivals India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1889599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1679016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_finder_url":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sports\/cricket-pakistans-afridi-to-be\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cricket-pakistans-afridi-to-be","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}