{"id":113211,"date":"2017-08-21T06:39:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T10:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=113211"},"modified":"2017-08-21T06:39:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T10:39:39","slug":"pakistan-to-host-world-xi-next-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/21\/pakistan-to-host-world-xi-next-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to host World XI next month"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_113121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113121\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/640px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-113121\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/640px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg_.png\" alt=\"Flag of Pakistan (Photo By User:Zscout370 - The drawing and the colors were based from flagspot.net., Public Domain)\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/640px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg_.png 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/640px-Flag_of_Pakistan.svg_-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Pakistan (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=363302\">Photo By User:Zscout370 &#8211; The drawing and the colors were based from flagspot.net., Public Domain<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ISLAMABAD &#8212; Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Najam Sethi says\u00a0international\u00a0cricket will return to the country next month when a World XI plays a three-match Twenty20 series in Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>The 15-men World XI comprises cricketers from all top test playing nations with former Zimbabwe captain Andy Flower as its coach.<\/p>\n<p>Flower had been assigned to select the squad and the tour is financially supported by the\u00a0International\u00a0Cricket Council.<\/p>\n<p>The PCB is also looking to host Sri Lanka in October and is in talks with the West Indies Cricket Board for a three-match T20 series in November.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe and Afghanistan are the only foreign countries to tour Pakistan for short limited-overs series since terrorists attacked a Sri Lankan cricket team bus in Lahore in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD &#8212; Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Najam Sethi says\u00a0international\u00a0cricket will return to the country next month when a World XI &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":113121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[2568],"class_list":["post-113211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-pakistan","mauthors-rizwan-ali","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}