{"id":45128,"date":"2021-03-15T10:23:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T11:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=45128"},"modified":"2021-03-15T11:56:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T11:56:45","slug":"ill-continue-to-play-until-someone-better-isnt-ready-to-replace-me-hafeez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=45128","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019ll continue to play until someone better isn\u2019t ready to replace me: Hafeez"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Hafeez-1.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Veteran batsman Mohammad Hafeez has clarified that he will happily leave cricket if someone better than him is ready to replace him at the highest level.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old Hafeez thinks that if a senior is justifying his selection, he should be given complete freedom to continue playing for Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel as a senior, you have to justify your selection. You can&#8217;t play on the basis of seniority. If you are ticking [selection] criteria you should be there [in the team], he said\u00a0on Cricket Baaz\u2019s YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<p>Hafeez revealed that he also made this point clear to the Chairman PCB Ehsan Mani when he met back in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I openly said to him [Ehsan Mani] that I play for the pride of Pakistan and I am not playing for any financial help or need,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, if someone better is ready to replace me, I&#8217;ll happily leave and retire with no resentment,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/double-standards-from-pcb-in-hafeezs-central-contract-case-moin-khan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Double Standards from PCB in Hafeez\u2019s central contract case\u2019 Moin Khan<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Veteran batsman Mohammad Hafeez has clarified that he will happily leave cricket if someone better than him is ready to replace him at the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=45128\" title=\"I\u2019ll continue to play until someone better isn\u2019t ready to replace me: Hafeez\">[&#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\/45128"}],"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=45128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45130,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45128\/revisions\/45130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}