{"id":30117,"date":"2021-02-03T11:05:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T12:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30117"},"modified":"2021-02-03T13:02:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T13:02:24","slug":"shaheen-to-play-for-birmingham-phoenix-in-maiden-the-hundred-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30117","title":{"rendered":"Shaheen to play for Birmingham Phoenix in maiden \u2018The Hundred\u2019 tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/SHAHEEN.jpg\" width=\"746\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Pakistan pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi has been retained by Birmingham Phoenix for the first season of England\u2019s new franchise cricket league \u2018The Hundred\u2019.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The eight teams were allowed to retain as many players\u00a0from their 2020 squad which were\u00a0initially selected through a draft that took place in October 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Another draft will take place prior to the tournament. The teams will also have\u00a0the option for a final Wildcard pick.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/london-spirit-retains-amir-maiden-the-hundred\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">London Spirit retains Amir for maiden \u2018The Hundred\u2019 this year<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>On the other hand, all-rounder Shadab Khan has not been retained by Southern Punjab as he was one of the only three Pakistani to be picked for this tournament.\u00a0Pacer Mohammad Amir will be seen in the action for\u00a0London Spirit.<\/p>\n<p>Note, the new\u00a0100-ball format was shifted to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.\u00a0As many as eight franchises will take part in it and the tournament will be based on the Round-robin league and Playoffs.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/ecb-postpones-hundred-until-summer-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ECB postpones \u2018The Hundred\u2019 until summer 2021<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Pakistan pacer Shaheen Shah Afridi has been retained by Birmingham Phoenix for the first season of England\u2019s new franchise cricket league \u2018The Hundred\u2019.\u00a0 The <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30117\" title=\"Shaheen to play for Birmingham Phoenix in maiden \u2018The Hundred\u2019 tournament\">[&#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\/30117"}],"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=30117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30119,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30117\/revisions\/30119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}