{"id":114772,"date":"2021-08-11T05:31:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T05:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114772"},"modified":"2021-08-11T06:00:10","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T06:00:10","slug":"yasir-shah-to-play-for-trinbago-knight-riders-in-cpl-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114772","title":{"rendered":"Yasir Shah to play for Trinbago Knight Riders in CPL 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Yasir-Shah.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"778\" title=\"\" alt=\"Shah to replace fellow leg-spinner Shadab Khan for England series\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah has rejoined defending champions Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) for the 2021 season of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old played on two matches for the Knight Riders in 2017, when the franchise won its second title (the first was in 2015 as the T&amp;T Red Steel).<\/p>\n<p>Shah has played 124 T20 matches taking 106 wickets at 29.96 runs per wicket. Shah&#8217;s economy rate is 7.13 and his strike rate is 25.10.<\/p>\n<p>His last T20 matches were in October 2020 for Balochistan in Pakistan&#8217;s National T20 Cup.<br \/>\nThe Trinbago Knight Riders won the 2020 CPL title without losing a game when the tournament was played behind closed doors entirely in Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n<p>The 2021 tournament will be staged in St Kitts and Nevis from 26 August to 15 September.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that Wahab Riaz, Azam Khan, Usman Qadir, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Hafeez, Haider Ali, and Shoaib Malik were also picked for the extravaganza.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/st-lucia-zouks-talks-shahnawaz-dahani-play-this-years-cpl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">St Lucia Zouks in talks with Shahnawaz Dahani to play this year\u2019s CPL<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Pakistan leg-spinner Yasir Shah has rejoined defending champions Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) for the 2021 season of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL). The 35-year-old <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114772\" title=\"Yasir Shah to play for Trinbago Knight Riders in CPL 2021\">[&#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\/114772"}],"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=114772"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114774,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114772\/revisions\/114774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}