{"id":10634,"date":"2020-12-17T09:19:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T10:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=10634"},"modified":"2020-12-17T11:11:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T11:11:38","slug":"pcb-confirms-amir-not-available-for-selection-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=10634","title":{"rendered":"PCB confirms Amir not available for selection anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/PCB-and-Amir.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"482\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has issued a statement on veteran pacer Mohammad Amir, who announced an indefinite break from international cricket earlier today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PCB Chief Executive Wasim Khan communicated with the 29-year-old Amir following retirement reports and he\u00a0confirmed to Wasim that he has no &#8216;desire or intensions of playing international cricket&#8217; and therefore, he\u00a0should not be considered for future international matches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a personal decision of Mohammad Amir, which the PCB respects, and as such, will not make any further comment on this matter at this stage,&#8221; PCB added in its statement.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that Amir said that he cannot play under the current management of the national team\u00a0led by head coach Misbah-ul-Haq and bowling coach Waqar Younis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My personal decision to leave Test cricket was taken in a wrong way. My retirement was attached to my desire of playing T20 leagues. I was wishing to invest everything in white-ball cricket for Pakistan,\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/amir-takes-indefinite-break-from-international-cricket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Cannot play under this management\u2019 Amir takes indefinite break from international cricket<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has issued a statement on veteran pacer Mohammad Amir, who announced an indefinite break from international cricket earlier today. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=10634\" title=\"PCB confirms Amir not available for selection anymore\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10636,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634\/revisions\/10636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}