{"id":116072,"date":"2021-08-14T11:32:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T11:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=116072"},"modified":"2021-08-14T12:01:37","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T12:01:37","slug":"hes-a-diamond-in-the-rough-bishop-praises-shaheen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=116072","title":{"rendered":"He\u2019s a diamond in the rough: Bishop praises Shaheen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Shaheen-and-Bishop.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Jamaica: Former West Indies fast bowler Ian Bishop has highly praised Pakistan&#8217;s rising pacer, Shaheen Shah Afridi for his superb progress in Test cricket.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 53-year-old Bishop was impressed with the spell Shaheen bowled on Day two of the ongoing first West Indies-Pakistan Test at Sabina Park.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Shaheen bowled a superb spell and that is why I keep telling people: The guy is 21 years old. He is a diamond in the rough,&#8221; Bishop expressed during commentary.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop opined that he didn&#8217;t know anything about Test cricket at this age.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I was 21, I knew nothing about Test match cricket. Absolutely nothing, even though I was playing the game. Sometimes, you can see something in someone even though at the moment they&#8217;re not the great player you want them to be,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted Shaheen was on a hat-trick after he removed Jermaine Blackwood and Kyle Mayers on consecutive balls.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the hosts were 34 runs ahead at stumps on Day two with two wickets still remaining.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/hasan-abbas-take-wickets-west-indies-struggle-first-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brathwaite, Holder rescue West Indies, take 34-runs lead against Pakistan<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Jamaica: Former West Indies fast bowler Ian Bishop has highly praised Pakistan&#8217;s rising pacer, Shaheen Shah Afridi for his superb progress in Test cricket. The <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=116072\" title=\"He\u2019s a diamond in the rough: Bishop praises Shaheen\">[&#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\/116072"}],"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=116072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116074,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116072\/revisions\/116074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}