{"id":5815,"date":"2020-12-06T08:31:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T09:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5815"},"modified":"2020-12-06T10:38:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T10:38:55","slug":"corey-anderson-quits-new-zealand-cricket-to-play-in-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5815","title":{"rendered":"Corey Anderson quits New Zealand cricket, to play in USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Corey-Anderson.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: All-rounder Corey Anderson quits New Zealand Cricket\u00a0after accepting a deal to become part of the upcoming USA\u2019s Major League Cricket venture.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old has signed a three-year contract with the franchise-led T20 competition, which is expected to start in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson,\u00a0who holds the record for the second-fastest hundred in ODIs, after playing MLC will likely go on to represent the USA in international cricket.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed the development to a renowned foreign publication and said: &#8220;It hasn\u2019t been an easy decision. I asked myself several questions. What do I want to do now or what do I want to achieve in the next two years, five years, 10 years? As you get older you think about life a little bit more broadly as well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0represented New Zealand 93 times across all formats, scoring 2277 runs with two hundred and 10 half-centuries. He also picked up 90 wickets and last appeared in 2018 against Pakistan in a T20I encounter in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson joins Pakistan&#8217;s Sami Aslam, South Africa&#8217;s\u00a0Rusty Theron and Dane Piedt to quit their national teams and play for the USA.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/piedt-quits-south-africa-pursue-career-usa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dane Piedt quits South Africa to pursue career in USA<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: All-rounder Corey Anderson quits New Zealand Cricket\u00a0after accepting a deal to become part of the upcoming USA\u2019s Major League Cricket venture. The 29-year-old has <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=5815\" title=\"Corey Anderson quits New Zealand cricket, to play in USA\">[&#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\/5815"}],"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=5815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5817,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5815\/revisions\/5817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}