{"id":65456,"date":"2021-04-30T19:25:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=65456"},"modified":"2021-04-30T19:57:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T19:57:29","slug":"have-not-even-thought-about-retirement-malik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=65456","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Have not even thought about retirement\u2019 Malik"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Malik.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>KARACHI: Pakistan&#8217;s most experienced active cricketer Shoaib Malik once again clarified that he has no plans to take retirement in the near future.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Press Trust of India (PTI), Malik said he is completely fit and ready to play whenever gets an opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve not even thought about retirement &amp; have no plans to retire because I am fit, I can bat &amp; I can bowl. I can field in hotspots, I can take runs quickly &amp; can save runs. When I have to bowl I can also bowl &amp; I am batting well &amp; my fitness is top grade,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier also, Malik often said that he wasn&#8217;t thinking of taking retirement at any point.<\/p>\n<p>It is pertinent to mention here that Malik last played a T20I for Pakistan against England in 2020. He made his ODI debut in 1999 and is currently the oldest active player in the country.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/need-an-international-white-ball-coach-suggests-malik\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Pakistan needs an international coach\u2019 suggests Shoaib Malik<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>KARACHI: Pakistan&#8217;s most experienced active cricketer Shoaib Malik once again clarified that he has no plans to take retirement in the near future.\u00a0 Speaking to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=65456\" title=\"\u2018Have not even thought about retirement\u2019 Malik\">[&#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\/65456"}],"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=65456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65458,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65456\/revisions\/65458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}