{"id":77780,"date":"2025-03-01T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T03:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=77780"},"modified":"2025-03-01T08:09:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T03:09:03","slug":"afghanistan-win-toss-bat-against-australia-in-champions-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/afghanistan-win-toss-bat-against-australia-in-champions-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan win toss, bat against Australia in Champions Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore<br \/>\nAfghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi won the toss and opted to bat in the crucial Champions Trophy Group B match against Australia in Lahore on Friday.<br \/>\nTournament debutantes Afghanistan will reach the semi-finals if they win today. They have kept the same team that beat England by a thrilling eight runs.<br \/>\nThey lost their first match of the 50-over competition against South Africa by 107 runs.<br \/>\nSteve Smith-led Australia will themselves reach the semi-finals with a win. They kept the same team that beat England by five wickets in their first match.<br \/>\nTheir second match, against South Africa, was washed out.<br \/>\nSouth Africa face already eliminated England in Group B on Saturday.<br \/>\nIndia and New Zealand have sealed their spots in the last four from Group A.<br \/>\nTeams:<br \/>\nAustralia: Steve Smith (captain), Matthew Short, Travis Head, Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell, Alex Carey, Ben Dwarshuis, Nathan Ellis, Spencer Johnson, Adam Zampa<br \/>\nAfghanistan: Hashmatullah Shahidi (captain), Ibrahim Zadran, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sediqullah Atal, Rahmat Shah, Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Fazalhaq Farooqi<br \/>\nUmpires: Alex Wharf (ENG) and Kumar Dharmasena (SRI)<br \/>\nTV umpire: Chris Gaffaney (NZL)<br \/>\nMatch referee: Andrew Pycroft (ZIM)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi won the toss and opted to bat in the crucial Champions Trophy Group B match against Australia in Lahore on Friday. Tournament debutantes Afghanistan will reach the semi-finals if they win today. They have kept the same team that beat England by a thrilling eight runs. They lost their first &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":77794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77795,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77780\/revisions\/77795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}