{"id":4787,"date":"2020-12-03T08:15:46","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T09:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4787"},"modified":"2020-12-03T10:27:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T10:27:48","slug":"a-new-beginning-sami-aslam-quits-pakistan-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4787","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A new beginning\u2019 Sami Aslam quits Pakistan cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Sami-Aslam.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: The 24-year-old opening batsman Sami Aslam has left Pakistan Cricket and has decided to move United States of America (USA) permanently.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Test cricketer took to social platforms and confirmed that he has landed in San Francisco, California and is ready for &#8216;a new beginning&#8217;.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">To the new beginning <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/2.3\/72x72\/1f1fa-1f1f8.png\" alt=\"??\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/2.3\/72x72\/1f3cf.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sami Aslam (@Samiaslam999) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Samiaslam999\/status\/1334350458568146944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sami&#8217;s decision came after\u00a0being ignored by the national team selectors for tour of New Zealand and made himself unavailable\u00a0for the fourth round of the ongoing Quaid-e-Azam Trophy 2020-21.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Disappointed that I didn&#039;t get any chance to be in 35players for NZ tour and last UK tour,even after good last QeD 2019-20trophy, I was one of the most run makers, scored 864 runs(4 100&#039;s) average of 78,<br \/>dropped from the Test squad after not getting a game in my last UK tour 2018<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sami Aslam (@Samiaslam999) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Samiaslam999\/status\/1326549554687221765?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 11, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Meanwhile, he will have to play domestic cricket in the USA for three years before he becomes eligible to represent their national cricket team.<\/p>\n<p>Sami represented Pakistan in 13 Tests and scored 758 runs at an average of 31.58 with seven half-centuries.<\/p>\n<p>His last appearance for Pakistan came in a Test match against Sri Lanka back in 2017. He was dropped from the national team without getting any game on England tour in 2018.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/what-went-wrong-sami-aslam\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">What went wrong for Sami Aslam?<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: The 24-year-old opening batsman Sami Aslam has left Pakistan Cricket and has decided to move United States of America (USA) permanently.\u00a0 Test cricketer took <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=4787\" title=\"\u2018A new beginning\u2019 Sami Aslam quits Pakistan cricket\">[&#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\/4787"}],"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=4787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4789,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4787\/revisions\/4789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}