{"id":55913,"date":"2021-04-09T10:03:46","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T10:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=55913"},"modified":"2021-04-09T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T10:57:54","slug":"hafeez-set-to-feature-in-100th-t20i-match-for-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=55913","title":{"rendered":"Hafeez set to feature in 100th T20I match for Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Hafeez-.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Johannesburg: Veteran batsman Mohammad Hafeez will become only the sixth cricketer to play 100 T20Is when he steps on the field against South Africa in first match of the series.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old Hafeez has so far played 99 matches, scoring 2323 runs at an average of almost 28. The right-handed batsman can also surpass Shoaib Malik if he scores 13 runs more to become the top run-getter for Pakistan in this format. He also have 54 wickets to his name.<\/p>\n<p>All-rounder Malik, while talking in the 31st episode of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) podcast, hailed Hafeez for his services for country&#8217;s cricket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to congratulate Hafeez on becoming only the second Pakistani to play 100 T20Is. I am extremely happy as a colleague and I wish he takes a player of the match award in his 100th match,&#8221; Malik praised.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that Shoaib Malik, India&#8217;s Rohit Sharma, New Zealand&#8217;s Ross Taylor and Martin Guptill, England&#8217;s Eoin Morgan, are the only five cricketers\u00a0to reach century of T20Is.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/ill-continue-play-until-someone-better-ready-replace-hafeez\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I\u2019ll continue to play until someone better isn\u2019t ready to replace me: Hafeez<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Johannesburg: Veteran batsman Mohammad Hafeez will become only the sixth cricketer to play 100 T20Is when he steps on the field against South Africa in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=55913\" title=\"Hafeez set to feature in 100th T20I match for Pakistan\">[&#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\/55913"}],"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=55913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55915,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55913\/revisions\/55915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}