{"id":33653,"date":"2025-10-21T17:59:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=33653"},"modified":"2025-10-21T17:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:14:18","slug":"shaheen-afridi-appointed-pakistan-odi-captain-for-south-africa-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/shaheen-afridi-appointed-pakistan-odi-captain-for-south-africa-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaheen Afridi appointed Pakistan ODI captain for South Africa series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(AFP) – Pakistan on Monday named fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi as skipper for next month’s three-match ODI series against South Africa, marking a third change in the format’s captaincy in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old replaced Mohammad Rizwan who took over as ODI skipper last October following Babar Azam’s resignation. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said Shaheen’s appointment came after a meeting in Islamabad. “A meeting of the selection committee, also attended by Pakistan’s white-ball head coach Mike Hesson, decided that Shaheen will lead Pakistan’s ODI side against South Africa,” said a PCB release. The three-match ODI series will be played on November 4, 6 and 8 — all in Faisalabad.<\/p>\n

Rizwan started off well as ODI skipper with a 2-1 series win, Pakistan’s first in Australia in 22 years, in November 2024.<\/p>\n

Pakistan then handed South Africa their first 3-0 home whitewash and won 2-1 in Zimbabwe. But this year Pakistan lost the home tri-series final to New Zealand before crashing out of the Champions Trophy in the first round in February.<\/p>\n

But Rizwan’s worst came in the West Indies where Pakistan lost 2-1 — their first series loss in the Caribbean for 34 years.<\/p>\n

Shaheen previously led Pakistan in five Twenty20 internationals in New Zealand in January last year but was relieved of the role after a 4-1 defeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(AFP) – Pakistan on Monday named fast bowler Shaheen Shah Afridi as skipper for next month’s three-match ODI series against South Africa, marking a third change in the format’s captaincy in the past 12 months. The 25-year-old replaced Mohammad Rizwan who took over as ODI skipper last October following Babar Azam’s resignation. Pakistan Cricket Board […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33655,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33653\/revisions\/33655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}