{"id":64228,"date":"2018-05-08T17:14:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T12:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=64228"},"modified":"2018-05-08T17:14:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T12:14:05","slug":"mushtaq-ahmed-appoints-as-windies-spin-bowling-coach-on-short-term-basis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=64228","title":{"rendered":"Mushtaq Ahmed appoints as Windies spin-bowling coach on short-term basis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Karachi May 8 (TNS):<\/strong> Former leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed has been appointed as the spin-bowling coach of the West Indies men&#8217;s cricket team for a month.<br \/>\nThe 47-year-old has signed only one-month contract with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), but the appointment can be converted into a long-term position.<br \/>\nIt pertinent to mention here that Mushtaq&#8217;s contract with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) as the head coach of the National Cricket Academy expired last month and that the extension will take effect only from July.<br \/>\nInsisting that it is a privilege to work with the West Indies cricket team, Mushtaq said that though he has signed a short contract, a month-long deal is enough for him to make a difference.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s a privilege to work with the West Indies cricket team. They have produced many greatest cricketers and I have wonderful memories playing against a few in the 90s. They probably are not the same force in the world cricket at this stage but they still have a consistent pipeline of exceptional cricketers coming in the system,&#8221; ESPNcricinfo quoted Mushtaq, as saying.<br \/>\nMushtaq had also served as Pakistan bowling coach between 2016 and 2017 besides also working with England as a spin-bowling consultant previously<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi May 8 (TNS): Former leg-spinner Mushtaq Ahmed has been appointed as the spin-bowling coach of the West Indies men&#8217;s cricket team for a month. The 47-year-old has signed only one-month contract with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), but the appointment can be converted into a long-term position. It pertinent to mention here that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64228","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\/64228","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=64228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64230,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64228\/revisions\/64230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}