{"id":79444,"date":"2021-06-02T08:51:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T08:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=79444"},"modified":"2021-06-02T09:02:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T09:02:57","slug":"malik-still-unaware-of-reason-behind-exclusion-from-national-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=79444","title":{"rendered":"Malik still unaware of reason behind exclusion from national side"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Malik.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Veteran all-rounder Shoaib Malik has opened up over his exclusion from the Pakistan T20I team, revealing he is still trying to figure out the reason.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Malik last played for Pakistan in T20I against England in Manchester in September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t understand why I was dropped from the team. I don\u2019t want to drag this issue. It doesn\u2019t matter how much your age is. You should meet the team\u2019s criteria in terms of performance, fitness,&#8221; Malik in an interview with Cricket Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most importantly, as a senior player if you keep the environment of dressing room healthy and respect your management and young players, then nothing else matters,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Malik is confident in playing for the national side in T20 World Cup later this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still believe that I can be useful in the T20 format. I\u2019m not thinking that I won\u2019t play the [T20] World Cup, I\u2019m still hopeful about featuring in the World Cup and giving my all,&#8221; he maintained.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/amir-wahab-imad-need-team-shoaib-malik\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Amir, Wahab, Imad are need of the team\u2019 Shoaib Malik<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Veteran all-rounder Shoaib Malik has opened up over his exclusion from the Pakistan T20I team, revealing he is still trying to figure out the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=79444\" title=\"Malik still unaware of reason behind exclusion from national side\">[&#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\/79444"}],"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=79444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79446,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79444\/revisions\/79446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}