{"id":890577,"date":"2026-09-13T14:08:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T14:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890577\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T14:08:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T14:08:33","slug":"afghanistan-pacer-raring-to-go-after-two-years-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/890577\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan pacer raring to go after two years out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He also spoke on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/tournaments\/cricketworldcup\/news\/afghanistan-youngster-set-for-shock-odi-retirement-at-conclusion-of-cwc23\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">retirement from ODIs in 2023<\/a>, owing it to injury concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan have beaten every Test-playing nation in international cricket barring India. Though it is a bilateral series, Naveen is firing and ready to get back on the field.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed on the fact that his colleagues in this version of the Afghanistan side have been playing alongside him since 2018, their time in the U-19s together.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this generation, you will see nine or ten players who have been playing for Afghanistan since the Under-19s together, since 2018. Those players are now in the national team, playing franchise cricket all over.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Several familiar faces such as Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Azmatullah Omarzai and Mujeeb-Ur-Rahman were part of Naveen&#8217;s cohort in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He also spoke on his retirement from ODIs in 2023, owing it to injury concerns. Afghanistan have beaten&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,95832,95830,95836,95846,95842,95845,95843,1950,95844,95841,95847,95853,95852,95833,7301,95851,95835,95834,90626,95839,95840,95849,85,95848,95850,95838,95831,95837],"class_list":["post-890577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-breaking-news","tag-cricket-headlines-today","tag-cricket-live-score","tag-cricket-match-highlights-today","tag-cricket-match-live-streaming-score","tag-cricket-match-result-today","tag-cricket-match-today-live","tag-cricket-news","tag-cricket-results-today","tag-cricket-scorecard-live","tag-cricket-series-updates","tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","tag-cricket-world-cup-news","tag-cricket-world-news","tag-icc","tag-icc-cricket-updates","tag-international-cricket-live-score","tag-international-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-news","tag-latest-cricket-scores","tag-live-cricket-match-update","tag-odi-cricket-live-score","tag-sports","tag-t20-cricket-live-score","tag-test-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-live-score","tag-today-cricket-news-update","tag-todays-cricket-match-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}