{"id":378370,"date":"2026-01-19T12:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378370\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:18:09","slug":"afg-vs-wi-rashids-landmark-and-west-indies-auditions-headline-t20i-series-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/378370\/","title":{"rendered":"Afg vs WI &#8211; Rashid&#8217;s landmark and West Indies auditions headline T20I series in Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naveen-ul-Haq, who has a slingy action and a collection of slower balls in his repertoire, has been sidelined from this series and also the T20 World Cup with a shoulder injury. While left-arm seamer Fazalhaq Farooqi is back in the T20I squad, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/cricketers\/ziaur-rahman-1015399\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ziaur Rahman Sharfi<\/a> is more of a like-for-like replacement for Naveen. From originally being in the reserves, Sharfi has now been promoted to the main squad. The 27-year-old has played just one T20I so far, but he showed promise during the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL). Before the BPL, he marked his Test debut against Zimbabwe with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/series\/afghanistan-in-zimbabwe-2025-26-1505250\/zimbabwe-vs-afghanistan-only-test-1505259\/full-scorecard\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">seven-wicket haul<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naveen-ul-Haq, who has a slingy action and a collection of slower balls in his repertoire, has been sidelined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378371,"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-378370","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\/378370","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=378370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}