{"id":11294,"date":"2012-06-09T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T21:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/cricket-bangladesh-rest-shakib-for-zimbabwe-t20s\/"},"modified":"2012-06-09T23:06:08","modified_gmt":"2012-06-09T21:06:08","slug":"cricket-bangladesh-rest-shakib-for-zimbabwe-t20s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/cricket-bangladesh-rest-shakib-for-zimbabwe-t20s\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket-Bangladesh rest Shakib for Zimbabwe T20s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DHAKA, June 9<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Bangladesh have rested former<br \/>\ncaptain Shakib Al Hasan for the forthcoming Zimbabwe tour<br \/>\nfollowing a request from the player, the Bangladesh Cricket<br \/>\nBoard said on Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shakib was in Bangladesh&#8217;s 15-man squad for the trip, which<br \/>\nfeatures an unofficial tri-series Twenty20 tournament involving<br \/>\nhosts Zimbabwe and South Africa from June 18-27 in Harare.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh were added as the third team at the last minute<br \/>\nto what was originally a five-match series between Zimbabwe and<br \/>\nSouth Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The all-rounder has been playing domestic and international<br \/>\ncricket for the last two years without a real break.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>He was involved in a domestic league last week after<br \/>\nreturning from India where he played in the Indian Premier<br \/>\nLeague for champions Kolkata Knight Riders until May 27.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8221;The break was approved considering the continuous cricket<br \/>\nShakib has played over the last two years,&#8221; the BCB said in<br \/>\nstatement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Board is hopeful that the rest will allow the world&#8217;s<br \/>\nnumber one ranked test and ODI all-rounder to return for the<br \/>\nnext assignments of the national team refreshed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Batsman Jahirul Islam was added as replacement of Shakib.<br \/>\n(Reporting by Azad Majumder; Editing by Alastair Himmer. For any<br \/>\nquery please call +8801817030827 or email iashayaan@gmail.com)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA, June 9 (Reuters) &#8211; Bangladesh have rested former captain Shakib Al Hasan for the forthcoming Zimbabwe tour following a request from the player, the Bangladesh Cricket Board said on Saturday. Shakib was in Bangladesh&#8217;s 15-man squad for the trip, which features an unofficial tri-series Twenty20 tournament involving hosts Zimbabwe and South Africa from June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}