{"id":22616,"date":"2018-02-21T11:27:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T11:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=22616"},"modified":"2018-02-21T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T11:27:53","slug":"bangladesh-urge-mashrafe-mortaza-to-make-t20-cricket-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/bangladesh-urge-mashrafe-mortaza-to-make-t20-cricket-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh urge Mashrafe Mortaza to make T20 cricket comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh cricket team would welcome former captain Mashrafe Mortaza back into the national Twenty20 side if he decides to come out of retirement, cricket<\/p>\n<p>board president Nazmul Hasan said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old fast bowler announced his retirement from international T20s in February last year but continued to lead Bangladesh in one-day internationals.<\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh have failed to make any impact in his absence, most recently losing the T20 home series against Sri Lanka 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Nazmul met the team\u2019s coaching director Khaled Mahmud and captain Shakib Al Hasan to discuss the defeat, and said afterwards that he had wanted Mashrafe<\/p>\n<p>to return for the Sri Lanka series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe discussed&#8230; Mashrafe. But it entirely depends on him,\u201d Nazmul told reporters after the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people said if I tell him, then he would play, but I told him to play in this (Sri Lanka) series&#8230; I didn\u2019t force him. He said he wanted to play Test cricket<\/p>\n<p>which is why the discussion didn\u2019t progress,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh cricket team would welcome former captain Mashrafe Mortaza back into the national Twenty20 side if he decides to come out of retirement, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22617,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22618,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22616\/revisions\/22618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}