{"id":55808,"date":"2019-02-25T12:30:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=55808"},"modified":"2019-02-25T12:30:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T12:30:48","slug":"rashid-khan-hat-trick-seals-afghanistan-t20-sweep-against-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/rashid-khan-hat-trick-seals-afghanistan-t20-sweep-against-ireland\/","title":{"rendered":"Rashid Khan hat-trick seals Afghanistan T20 sweep against Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Rashid Khan claimed a hat-trick to help Afghanistan to a 3-0 series sweep over Ireland after their convincing 32-run victory in the third Twenty20 international on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan returned impressive figures of 5-27 to keep Ireland down to 178 for eight in their chase of 211 in the north Indian city of Dehradun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohammad Nabi hit 81 off 36 deliveries in Afghanistan\u2019s 210 for seven after being put into bat first on a ground where they posted a T20 international record of 278-3 in the previous match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin O\u2019Brien and Andy Balbirnie, who made 47, then put on a threatening 96-run second wicket stand to raise hopes of a successful chase but Khan hit back with his leg spin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He got O\u2019Brien caught behind for 74 but it was the 18th over when the world\u2019s top T20 bowler became the first spinner in the format to take a hat-trick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Khan got George Dockrell, Shane Getkate and Simi Singh on consecutive deliveries to shut the door on Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier Nabi demolished the Irish bowling attack as he smashed 6 fours and 7 sixes, hitting the ball to all parts of the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ireland paceman Boyd Rankin took three wickets but gave away 53 runs in his four overs.<\/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>Rashid Khan claimed a hat-trick to help Afghanistan to a 3-0 series sweep over Ireland after their convincing 32-run victory in the third Twenty20 international on Sunday. Khan returned impressive figures of 5-27 to keep Ireland down to 178 for eight in their chase of 211 in the north Indian city of Dehradun. Mohammad Nabi [&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":55809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55808","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\/55808","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=55808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55810,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55808\/revisions\/55810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}