{"id":31783,"date":"2017-11-18T22:32:01","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T17:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31783"},"modified":"2017-11-18T22:32:01","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T17:32:01","slug":"focus-on-batting-akram-tells-hafeez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31783","title":{"rendered":"Focus on batting, Akram tells Hafeez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi, Nov. 18 (TNS): Pakistan fast bowling great Wasim Akram has advised Muhammad Hafeez to give up bowling and just focus on his batting in a bid to extend his cricket career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think Hafeez should give up bowling now and just concentrate on his batting. Work harder on his batting,\u201d said Akram.<\/p>\n<p>Hafeez\u2019s bowling action was found to be illegal for a third time by the International Cricket Council (ICC) last month and he has been suspended from bowling in international cricket until he clears a biomechanics test.<\/p>\n<p>The ICC decision to suspend Hafeez from bowling came this week after the Pakistan all-rounder failed his bowling assessment test held in England.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi, Nov. 18 (TNS): Pakistan fast bowling great Wasim Akram has advised Muhammad Hafeez to give up bowling and just focus on his batting in a bid to extend his cricket career. \u201cI think Hafeez should give up bowling now and just concentrate on his batting. Work harder on his batting,\u201d said Akram. Hafeez\u2019s bowling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31785,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31783\/revisions\/31785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}