{"id":1536,"date":"2020-11-24T11:16:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T12:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2020-11-24T14:12:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T14:12:57","slug":"i-like-watching-babar-azam-bat-smith-names-his-favorite-pakistani-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=1536","title":{"rendered":"I like watching Babar Azam bat: Smith names his favorite Pakistani player"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Babar-Azam-and-Steve-Smith.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Former Australian captain and number one ranked Test batsman Steve Smith has named Pakistan&#8217;s all-format captain Babar Azam as his favorite Pakistani player.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old while answering questions on his official Instagram handle on Tuesday was asked about his favorite player from Pakistan on which Smith replied: &#8220;I like watching Babar Azam bat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capture-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-220473 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capture-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"458\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smith in June 2020,\u00a0termed Babar Azam <a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/smith-praises-babar-azam-mohammad-amir\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cVery good player\u201d<\/a> and the one, who has a lot of time when he is batting.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that he holds a unique record of being the only batsman to feature in the top-five spot in the ICC batting rankings of all three formats (second, third and fifth position in T20Is, ODIs and Tests respectively).<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/watching-babar-azam-bat-is-treat-for-eyes-ashwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watching Babar Azam bat is treat for the eyes: Ravi Ashwin<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Former Australian captain and number one ranked Test batsman Steve Smith has named Pakistan&#8217;s all-format captain Babar Azam as his favorite Pakistani player. The <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=1536\" title=\"I like watching Babar Azam bat: Smith names his favorite Pakistani player\">[&#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\/1536"}],"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=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1538,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/1538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}