{"id":13697,"date":"2020-12-25T10:32:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T11:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=13697"},"modified":"2020-12-25T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T11:57:00","slug":"johan-botha-appointed-as-new-head-coach-of-islamabad-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=13697","title":{"rendered":"Johan Botha appointed as new head coach of Islamabad United"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Johan-Botha.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Former South African spinner Johan Botha has been appointed as new head coach of two-time winners of Pakistan Super League (PSL), Islamabad United for the upcoming sixth season.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The announcement came a day after United parted ways with last season&#8217;s head coach Misbah-ul-Haq. The 38-year-old\u00a0had previously worked as the Fielding Coach for Islamabad United in PSL 2.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very happy to be back at Islamabad United, the franchise where I got my first taste of the Pakistan Super League at PSL 2.\u00a0 Since then I have had different experiences at the PSL as well as a range of coaching stints at various tournaments around the world<i>,&#8221;\u00a0<\/i>Botha said in a statement<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My plan is to bring all these experiences together and hopefully create another memorable PSL for Islamabad United,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that Botha recently came out of retirement\u00a0to take part in the Australian Big Bash League (BBL) for Hobart Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/islamabad-united-decides-not-renew-misbahs-contract-head-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Islamabad United decides not to renew Misbah\u2019s contract as head coach for PSL 6<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Former South African spinner Johan Botha has been appointed as new head coach of two-time winners of Pakistan Super League (PSL), Islamabad United for <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=13697\" title=\"Johan Botha appointed as new head coach of Islamabad United\">[&#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\/13697"}],"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=13697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13699,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13697\/revisions\/13699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}