{"id":31860,"date":"2021-02-07T13:30:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T14:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=31860"},"modified":"2021-02-07T15:08:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T15:08:46","slug":"will-call-you-proper-batsman-if-you-score-hundred-today-rizwan-reveals-yasirs-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=31860","title":{"rendered":"Will call you proper batsman, if you score hundred today: Rizwan reveals Yasir\u2019s challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Rizwan-and-Yasir.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Rawalpindi: Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan, who scored his maiden Test century against South Africa in the second Test, revealed that Yasir Shah challenged\u00a0him to score a century.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Yasir told Rizwan that If he scores a century then he will be called as a proper batsman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yasir Shah said to me that I will only consider you as a proper batsman if you score a hundred, as even I can score fifties. So I took that it a challenge and wanted to ensure that I made a hundred today,&#8221; Rizwan said in a virtual presser.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/pakistans-dressing-room-goes-crazy-rizwans-maiden-test-ton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WATCH: Pakistan\u2019s dressing room goes crazy on Rizwan\u2019s maiden Test ton<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Rizwan also disclosed what former captain Sarfaraz Ahmed did after he went back to the pavilion.\u00a0&#8220;When I went back to the pavilion after the innings ended and I had scored a century, Sarfaraz Ahmed hugged me. It\u2019s a team game, it\u2019s healthy competition between Sarfaraz and me but we have a lot of respect and admiration for each other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rizwan mentioned that he learned a lot from Asad Shafiq, who used to bat mostly with the tail.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to learn to bat with the tail and at this level you cannot make any excuses that you were batting with the tail-enders. Batting with the tail-enders is tough and I watched how Asad Shafiq batted with the tail and learnt a lot from him,&#8221; he maintained.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/live-rizwans-73-extends-pakistan-lead-288-second-test\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South Africa replies confidently in chase of 370 against Pakistan<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Rawalpindi: Pakistan wicketkeeper-batsman Mohammad Rizwan, who scored his maiden Test century against South Africa in the second Test, revealed that Yasir Shah challenged\u00a0him to score <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=31860\" title=\"Will call you proper batsman, if you score hundred today: Rizwan reveals Yasir\u2019s challenge\">[&#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\/31860"}],"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=31860"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31862,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31860\/revisions\/31862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}