{"id":74992,"date":"2019-11-22T12:09:25","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=74992"},"modified":"2019-11-22T12:09:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:09:27","slug":"16-year-old-pace-sensation-shah-to-make-debut-vs-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/16-year-old-pace-sensation-shah-to-make-debut-vs-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old pace sensation Shah to make debut vs Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Teenage bowling sensation Naseem Shah will become one of the youngest cricketers to play a Test after Pakistan captain Azhar Ali confirmed today the 16-year-old will make his debut at the Gabba. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shah, who opted to remain on tour after his mother died last week, made the grade for the first Test, which begins tomorrow, after impressing with an eight-over spell against Australia A in Perth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only handful of players have made their debut aged 16, including Sachin Tendulkar, who went on to become a batting legend. The youngest Test player is listed by the website Cricinfo as Pakistan\u2019s Hasan Raza, who was 14 on his 1996 debut, though his date of birth was later disputed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azhar said he had faith in Shah\u2019s abilities through a high-pressure five-day game. \u201cHe\u2019s very fit, I have captained him in First-Class matches and he has overs under his belt,\u201d he said.<\/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>Teenage bowling sensation Naseem Shah will become one of the youngest cricketers to play a Test after Pakistan captain Azhar Ali confirmed today the 16-year-old will make his debut at the Gabba. Shah, who opted to remain on tour after his mother died last week, made the grade for the first Test, which begins tomorrow, [&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":74993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74992","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\/74992","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=74992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74994,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74992\/revisions\/74994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}