{"id":16095,"date":"2024-08-24T23:26:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T18:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/?p=16095"},"modified":"2024-08-24T23:27:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T18:27:24","slug":"shaheen-afridi-celebrates-wicket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/2024\/08\/24\/shaheen-afridi-celebrates-wicket\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaheen Afridi celebrates wicket with cradle gesture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Shaheen Afridi celebrates wicket with cradle gesture<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>RAWALPINDI:\u00a0 Pakistan\u2019s star fast bowler, Shaheen Shah Afridi celebrated the birth of his baby boy with a heartwarming cradle gesture after taking a wicket in the ongoing first Test against Bangladesh at Pindi Cricket Stadium Rawalpindi on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>He bowled a length delivery on middle and leg, which Hasan Mahmud tried to hit over the mid-wicket area, but only managed to edge the ball to hand a diving catch to Muhammad Rizwan behind the wickets.<\/p>\n<p>He celebrated the wicket with a cradling gesture to honour his newborn child.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in a press release said that Afridi was blessed with a baby boy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations from Pakistan team players, management, and PCB,\u201d the PCB said in a felicitation message.<\/p>\n<p>Afridi will leave for Karachi after playing the ongoing first Test.<\/p>\n<p>He will rejoin the team before the second Test, scheduled to be played from August 30 to September 3 at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: APP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaheen Afridi celebrates wicket with cradle gesture RAWALPINDI:\u00a0 Pakistan\u2019s star fast bowler, Shaheen Shah Afridi celebrated the birth of his baby boy with a heartwarming cradle gesture after taking a wicket in the ongoing first Test against Bangladesh at Pindi Cricket Stadium Rawalpindi on Saturday. He bowled a length delivery on middle and leg, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2297,2298,2305],"tags":[3335],"class_list":["post-16095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-sports","tag-shaheen-shah-afridi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16095"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16099,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16095\/revisions\/16099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newspulse.com.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}