{"id":771230,"date":"2026-09-15T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771230\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T08:00:10","slug":"razaullah-flayed-england-but-he-should-have-been-playing-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/771230\/","title":{"rendered":"Razaullah flayed England, but he should have been playing for us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hewstone said the club had signed him in April, but his arrival in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, was delayed after he was called up to the Pakistan Super League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Sadly, after that he was called into a national training camp, and at the end of May we had to decide it wasn&#8217;t going to happen,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At the time, Hewstone said the club had been looking for a young lad who &#8220;probably wanted a bit of a chance&#8221;, and Razaullah fitted the bill perfectly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He had played only eight first-class games when he was recommended, and he had already scored a first-class hundred and taken five wickets,&#8221; Hewstone said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Asked if Razaullah was a star in the making, he replied: &#8220;He absolutely must be, to do what he has done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Getting Joe Root out on the fourth ball of your Test career and hitting Jofra Archer for two straight sixes over your head \u2013 he&#8217;s got a huge future ahead of him.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hewstone said the club had signed him in April, but his arrival in Cleethorpes, North East Lincolnshire, was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-771230","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\/771230","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=771230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}