{"id":373101,"date":"2026-01-16T10:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373101\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:38:08","slug":"t20-world-cup-2026-afghanistan-quick-naveen-ul-haq-ruled-out-with-injury-rashid-khan-leaves-sa20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/373101\/","title":{"rendered":"T20 World Cup 2026 &#8211; Afghanistan quick Naveen-ul-Haq ruled out with injury, Rashid Khan leaves SA20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pollard is not expected to captain MICT, though, with the team set to announce a replacement for Rashid the captain on Friday. Rassie van der Dussen and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/ryan-rickelton-605661\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Rickelton<\/a> are the front-runners for the role. Rickelton is leading the run charts thus far with 324 runs at a strike rate of 167.01 at the top of the order. He has scored two centuries this season, identical scores of 113 against Durban&#8217;s Super Giants and Joburg Super Kings. Rashid was MICT&#8217;s most economical bowler (7.92) and picked up six wickets. He also faced 21 balls for 36 runs (strike rate of 171.42).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pollard is not expected to captain MICT, though, with the team set to announce a replacement for Rashid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[132648,1721,36623,49,50,132647,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-373101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-bulletin","tag-cricket","tag-daily","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-package","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373101","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=373101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}