{"id":776065,"date":"2026-02-20T01:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/776065\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T01:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T01:30:10","slug":"zadran-nabi-star-as-afghanistan-bow-out-with-a-big-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/776065\/","title":{"rendered":"Zadran, Nabi star as Afghanistan bow out with a big win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zadran held firm. He found an ideal foil in Sediqullah Atal, and the pair put on 95 runs for the third wicket, a partnership that steadily, then emphatically, wrested control. Atal was busy and inventive, playing his shots freely on both sides of the wicket, before being caught at long-on off Jaskaran for 44 (32). By then, Afghanistan were 144 for 3 with five overs remaining and Zadran fully into his stride. Azmatullah Omarzai contributed a breezy 13 off 7 before holing out to long-on, but it mattered little as Afghanistan plundered 69 off the final five overs, crossing 200 off the last ball with Zadran stranded agonisingly five runs short of a deserved century. In all, he found the ropes seven times and cleared it five times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zadran held firm. He found an ideal foil in Sediqullah Atal, and the pair put on 95 runs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4101],"tags":[226573,2881,943,1406,210996,136255,192480,79,16,15],"class_list":["post-776065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-39th-match","tag-afghanistan","tag-canada","tag-cricket","tag-group-d","tag-ibrahim-zadran","tag-icc-mens-t20-world-cup-2026","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116100375190009088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}