{"id":371978,"date":"2026-01-15T20:15:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371978\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T20:15:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T20:15:20","slug":"afghanistan-cricket-board-limit-players-participation-in-leagues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/371978\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan Cricket Board limit players&#8217; participation in leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Afghanistan Cricket Board has implemented a new rule preventing their players from participating in more than three international leagues per year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Board says the new policy will &#8220;manage workload and ensure peak performance for national duties&#8221;, but it could mean many of the country&#8217;s players have to take a financial hit to remain compliant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Players like Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad and Mujeeb Ur Rahman play for numerous franchises around the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Spin-bowling all-rounder Khan, 27, is currently captaining MI Cape Town in the SA20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He also plays for MI&#8217;s other franchises in the ILT20, Major League Cricket and in The Hundred, plus has a deal with Gujarat Titans in the IPL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Afghanistan Cricket Board has implemented a new rule preventing their players from participating in more than three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-371978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}