{"id":56430,"date":"2021-04-10T19:40:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T19:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=56430"},"modified":"2021-04-10T19:56:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T19:56:50","slug":"akhtar-wants-fakhar-sharjeel-as-openers-despite-rizwans-consistency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=56430","title":{"rendered":"Akhtar wants Fakhar-Sharjeel as openers despite Rizwan\u2019s consistency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Akhtar.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>KARACHI: Shoaib Akhtar put weight on Sharjeel Khan-Fakhar Zaman as openers in the next T20I against South Africa.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his Youtube channel, Akhtar praised Mohammad Rizwan&#8217;s performance but expressed his wish to include Sharjeel as an opener with Fakhar in T20Is.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fakhar and Sharjeel together can destroy the opponent. Pakistan needs to think about playing ruthless cricket. Today&#8217;s cricket is not about 170 or 180s, you have to play for 200+ runs,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pakistan won but not convincingly, the team&#8217;s selection needs to get better. They could have beaten them one-sided,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Akhtar suggested batting order for the team. &#8220;For me, Fakhar and Sharjeel should open followed by Babar Azam on one down. Then, Hafeez followed by Rizwan and Haider. I also missed Asif Ali today as he could have been handy for the team as T20I cricket is all about power-hitting and he is good at it,&#8221; he shared.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/difficult-enjoying-opening-pakistan-rizwan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Its difficult but enjoying opening for Pakistan\u2019 Rizwan<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>KARACHI: Shoaib Akhtar put weight on Sharjeel Khan-Fakhar Zaman as openers in the next T20I against South Africa.\u00a0 Speaking on his Youtube channel, Akhtar praised <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=56430\" title=\"Akhtar wants Fakhar-Sharjeel as openers despite Rizwan\u2019s consistency\">[&#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\/56430"}],"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=56430"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56432,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56430\/revisions\/56432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}