{"id":35155,"date":"2018-06-24T12:33:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-24T12:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=35155"},"modified":"2018-06-24T12:33:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T12:33:31","slug":"punjab-born-simi-singh-to-represent-ireland-in-t20i-series-against-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/punjab-born-simi-singh-to-represent-ireland-in-t20i-series-against-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab-born Simi Singh to represent Ireland in T20I series against India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab born off-spinner Simranjit &#8216;Simi&#8217; Singh, who has played seven ODIs and four T20 Internationals for Ireland, will take the field against India when the two teams clash in the two-match T20I series, starting June 27. Singh, who made his debut against New Zealand, has not played against any cricketing powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p>Born in Bathlana village in Kharar district of Punjab, Simi has eight wickets from seven ODIs and six scalps from four T20Is.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Joshua Little and Andy McBrine have been recalled to for the India games.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old left-arm fast bowler Little, who has played only four T20s so far &#8211; two of them T20Is &#8211; and was part of the Ireland team in the Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand in January this year.<\/p>\n<p>McBrine has already played 30 ODIs and 19 T20Is, though his last T20I was in March 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland have played lone T20I against India, during the 2009 World T20 in England. India won that game by eight wickets with 4.3 overs to spare, thanks to Zaheer Khan&#8217;s 4 for 19.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab born off-spinner Simranjit &#8216;Simi&#8217; Singh, who has played seven ODIs and four T20 Internationals for Ireland, will take the field against India when the two teams clash in the two-match T20I series, starting June 27. Singh, who made his debut against New Zealand, has not played against any cricketing powerhouse. Born in Bathlana village [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35155","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\/35155","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=35155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35157,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35155\/revisions\/35157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}