{"id":63768,"date":"2018-05-05T14:46:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T09:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63768"},"modified":"2018-05-05T14:58:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T09:58:05","slug":"pakistans-shadab-khan-makes-history-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63768","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan\u2019s Shadab Khan makes history in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London, May 5 (TNS):<\/strong> Pakistan\u2019s 19-year-old leg spinner Shadab Khan produced a splendid performance against Northamptonshire on Friday, as he bamboozled their batting order by taking six wickets on the first day of the warm-up game.<br \/>\nThe Islamabad United famed Leg spinner took 6-77 in 19 overs, as Northamptonshire posted a total to 259 on the first day of the four-day Test.<br \/>\nNorthamptonshire Batsman Adam Rossington scored 90 runs to guide his side towards a formidable total but was eventually stumped by Sarfraz Ahmed, on Shadab\u2019s menacing delivery.<br \/>\nThis was the teenager\u2019s ninth first-class test match and his six-for was his best ever performance at this level.<br \/>\nPreviously the youngster career best came in 2016, a brilliant display of 5-82 for Pakistan-A side.<br \/>\nShadab proved in the preceding warm-up game against Kent that he is capable of turn and bounce in English conditions and can cause havoc for the English batsmen.<br \/>\nThe jubilated leg-spinner said, &#8220;I&#8217;m very happy because it&#8217;s my second first-class five-for, &#8220;I&#8217;m the only spinner, Yasir has performed very well for Pakistan. Now I get a chance for the Test team and I wanted to grab that chance.&#8221;<br \/>\nIt\u2019s is likely that seam bowling will be preferred and also effective in English conditions but the sharp turn Shadab possess both ways is a unique trait in his armoury and can be utilized when the time comes.<\/p>\n<p>It is yet to be seen whether Pakistan\u2019s rising star adds to the only Test cap he earned in Barbados last year.<br \/>\nPakistan will face Ireland after this warm-up game in Malahide on Friday next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London, May 5 (TNS): Pakistan\u2019s 19-year-old leg spinner Shadab Khan produced a splendid performance against Northamptonshire on Friday, as he bamboozled their batting order by taking six wickets on the first day of the warm-up game. The Islamabad United famed Leg spinner took 6-77 in 19 overs, as Northamptonshire posted a total to 259 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63768","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\/63768","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=63768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63770,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63768\/revisions\/63770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}