{"id":98438,"date":"2021-07-11T13:16:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T13:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=98438"},"modified":"2021-07-11T13:57:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T13:57:17","slug":"saud-shakeel-opens-up-on-his-lords-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=98438","title":{"rendered":"Saud Shakeel opens up on his Lord\u2019s performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Saud-2.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>London:\u00a0Middle-order batter Saud Shakeel was pleased with his performance in the second England-Pakistan ODI at Lord&#8217;s as he scored maiden fifty while also claimed a wicket.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old Saud was playing his second ODI of his career where he scored\u00a077-ball 56-run and took the wicket of England&#8217;s Phil Salt too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels a great honour to play at Lord\u2019s. It was a different feeling all together. I had made up my mind to perform here, which could help my side,&#8221; Saud said in a video released by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/2.3\/72x72\/1f5e3.png\" alt=\"?\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/>\ufe0f \u201cIt was a great honour to play at Lord\u2019s. I had made up my mind to perform here which could help my side.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u25b6\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saudshak?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@saudshak<\/a> on his maiden ODI half-century &amp; wicket in second <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ENGvPAK?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ENGvPAK<\/a> ODI<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rynz5fwMIT\">https:\/\/t.co\/Rynz5fwMIT<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HarHaalMainCricket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HarHaalMainCricket<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BackTheBoysInGreen?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BackTheBoysInGreen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T8NJbPEd1H\">pic.twitter.com\/T8NJbPEd1H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pakistan Cricket (@TheRealPCB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRealPCB\/status\/1414194694242906112?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen I went to the crease, the situation was not good for our side. Misbah Bhai had told me to stay on the wicket for a long time. The same thing was told by Fakhar Zaman when I joined him in the middle,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>On his first international wicket, Saud said: &#8220;The captain and vice-captain had given me the ball to stop the free flow of runs. I started to get spin from the pitch after that I maintained my line and length, and was rewarded with Salt\u2019s wicket. I was really excited to get my first scalp in the international cricket as it is always a memorable one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that Green Shirts have lost the series but can avoid a clean sweep with win in the third ODI at Birmingham, Edgbaston.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/our-batsman-did-well-in-last-few-series-reminds-hasan-ali\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018Our batsmen did well in last few series\u2019 reminds Hasan Ali<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>London:\u00a0Middle-order batter Saud Shakeel was pleased with his performance in the second England-Pakistan ODI at Lord&#8217;s as he scored maiden fifty while also claimed a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=98438\" title=\"Saud Shakeel opens up on his Lord\u2019s performance\">[&#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\/98438"}],"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=98438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98440,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98438\/revisions\/98440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}