{"id":97119,"date":"2021-07-08T18:56:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T18:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=97119"},"modified":"2021-07-08T19:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T19:00:07","slug":"luckily-we-got-babar-out-earlier-man-of-the-match-saqib-mahmood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=97119","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Luckily, we got Babar out earlier\u2019 man-of-the-match Saqib Mahmood"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Saqib-1.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>CARDIFF: England&#8217;s man-of-the-match against Pakistan in first ODI, Saqib Mahmood believes that the early wicket of Babar Azam gave some sort of relief to his team.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While addressing a post-match press conference after receiving his match-winning award, Saqib said he couldn&#8217;t believe of taking two early wickets to take his team on the top.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I got a fine start by taking two wickets in the first over. Especially that wicket of Babar was very important for us. Had he stayed for long, he could have made a difference. Luckily, we got him out earlier,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Saqib said the last few days were very surprising for him as he spent Tuesday in Manchester and a sudden call for national duty ended up here. &#8220;I was in Manchester. Nobody from the late call-ups would have expected this. But, I am happy to get this chance and performing for my team,&#8221; he shared.<\/p>\n<p>Saqib expressed high hopes to continue match-winning performance at The Lord&#8217;s and Edgbaston in the next two matches. &#8220;I will try my best to continue this performance in upcoming games. Also, I am excited to play in front of house full at Lord&#8217;s and 80 percent crowd in Edgbaston,&#8221; he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted here that Saqib bagged his career-best figures of 4-42 against Pakistan in the first ODI which England won by nine wickets.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>READ:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/lords-host-full-house-during-pakvseng-second-odi-july-10\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lord\u2019s to host full house during PakvsEng \u2013 second ODI on July 10<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>CARDIFF: England&#8217;s man-of-the-match against Pakistan in first ODI, Saqib Mahmood believes that the early wicket of Babar Azam gave some sort of relief to his <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=97119\" title=\"\u2018Luckily, we got Babar out earlier\u2019 man-of-the-match Saqib Mahmood\">[&#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\/97119"}],"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=97119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97121,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97119\/revisions\/97121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}