{"id":21923,"date":"2021-01-13T14:56:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T15:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=21923"},"modified":"2021-01-13T15:59:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T15:59:57","slug":"shahid-afridi-to-captain-muzaffarabad-tigers-in-kpl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=21923","title":{"rendered":"Shahid Afridi to captain Muzaffarabad Tigers in KPL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Afridi.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Islamabad: Former international cricketer Shahid Afridi will lead Muzaffarabad Tigers in Kashmir Premier League (KPL), ARY News reported.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Afridi has been appointed as captain and president by KPL&#8217;s franchise Muzaffarabad Tigers. The agreement between both parties has been signed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am honored to become the president of KPL. I have never felt such gratitude being the ambassador of any other league around the world,&#8221; Afridi addressed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This league will play an important role in highlighting young cricketers in Kashmir which has talent in bulk. I aim to build a cricket academy in Kashmir to promote young cricketer by providing them ample opportunities,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted here that KPL will take place from April 1 to 10 in Mirpur and Muzaffarabad. As many as six teams will participate in the event and that includes Rawalakot Hawks, Bagh Stallions, Muzaffarabad Tigers, Mirpur Royals, Kotliu Panthers, and Overseas Warriors.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/watch-40-years-old-shahid-afridi-smashes-50-off-20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WATCH: 40-years-old Shahid Afridi smashes 50 off 20<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Islamabad: Former international cricketer Shahid Afridi will lead Muzaffarabad Tigers in Kashmir Premier League (KPL), ARY News reported.\u00a0 Afridi has been appointed as captain and <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=21923\" title=\"Shahid Afridi to captain Muzaffarabad Tigers in KPL\">[&#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\/21923"}],"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=21923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21925,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21923\/revisions\/21925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}