{"id":37310,"date":"2018-07-25T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T12:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=37310"},"modified":"2018-07-25T12:40:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T12:40:09","slug":"steve-smith-replaces-shakib-al-hasan-in-barbados-tridents-for-cpl-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/steve-smith-replaces-shakib-al-hasan-in-barbados-tridents-for-cpl-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Smith replaces Shakib Al Hasan in Barbados Tridents for CPL 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Suspended Australia captain Steve Smith has signed with the Barbados Tridents in the Caribbean Premier League as a replacement for Shakib Al Hasan. Smith is serving a 12-month ban imposed by Cricket Australia for his role in a ball-tampering scandal during a test series in South Africa in March that plunged his national team into disarray.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s No. 1-ranked test cricket batsman is barred from playing first-class cricket for his country or his province but is allowed to play at the club level and has recently participated in a Twenty20 competition in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The Barbados Tridents announced Smith&#8217;s signing on Wednesday for the August 8-September 16 CPL, a six-team franchise-based Twenty20 league that launched in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Tridents coach Robin Singh says it was a setback to lose Bangladesh allrounder Al Hasan &#8220;but in Steve Smith we have a truly world-class replacement who can help to bring power to our batting lineup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Tridents open against Guyana&#8217;s Amazon Warriors on Aug. 12 and will play Jamacia&#8217;s Tallawahs in Lauderhill, Fla., before returning to Barbados for five games.<\/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>Suspended Australia captain Steve Smith has signed with the Barbados Tridents in the Caribbean Premier League as a replacement for Shakib Al Hasan. Smith is serving a 12-month ban imposed by Cricket Australia for his role in a ball-tampering scandal during a test series in South Africa in March that plunged his national team into [&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":37311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37310","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\/37310","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=37310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37312,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37310\/revisions\/37312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}