{"id":9428,"date":"2020-12-14T07:29:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T08:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=9428"},"modified":"2020-12-14T09:06:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T09:06:54","slug":"iftikhar-ahmed-smashes-century-in-intra-squad-practice-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=9428","title":{"rendered":"Iftikhar Ahmed smashes century in intra-squad practice match"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Iftikhar-Ahmed.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Middle-order batsman Iftikhar Ahmed hit an unbeaten 102 off 48 balls in an intra-squad practice match at the events center in Queenstown.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Batsman Abdullah Shafiq scored 38 while all-rounder Hussain Talat made 24 runs.\u00a0Faheem Ashraf picked up two wickets while fast-bowlers Wahab Riaz and Mohammad Hasnain took one wicket each.<\/p>\n<p>The batters were asked to bat\u00a0during the intra-squad match and bowlers were tasked to bowl in match-like situations to better prepare ahead of the first T20I.<\/p>\n<p>The national team will lock horns against New Zealand in the three-match T20I series on\u00a0December 18, 20 and 22 in Auckland, Hamilton and Napier, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 18-member squad including Imam-ul-Haq will leave for Auckland tomorrow. Imam has not traveled to Whangarei with the Pakistan Shaheens squad after suffering from a thumb injury as team doctors will monitor his injury.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Shaheens will take on New Zealand &#8216;A&#8217;\u00a0ahead of their only four-day match on December 17.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted Pakistan suffered a huge blow yesterday after captain Babar Azam injured his thumb, ruling him out of the T20I series. All-rounder Shadab Khan will lead Pakistan in Babar&#8217;s absence but he is also suffering from a groin niggle.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/misbah-optimistic-shadabs-availability-t20i-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Misbah-ul-Haq optimistic on Shadab Khan\u2019s availability for T20I series<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Middle-order batsman Iftikhar Ahmed hit an unbeaten 102 off 48 balls in an intra-squad practice match at the events center in Queenstown. Batsman Abdullah <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=9428\" title=\"Iftikhar Ahmed smashes century in intra-squad practice match\">[&#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\/9428"}],"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=9428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9430,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions\/9430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}