{"id":2259,"date":"2006-08-30T14:21:22","date_gmt":"2006-08-30T14:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2006\/08\/30\/howzat\/"},"modified":"2016-01-06T16:35:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T16:35:25","slug":"howzat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/30\/howzat\/","title":{"rendered":"HOWZAT!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div>YOUNG patients were bowled over when members of the Pakistan International Cricket Team made a surprise visit to Leicester Royal Infirmary&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Hospital. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Pakistan players, who were in Leicester at the beginning of the month for a pre-Test match against Leicestershire,\u00a0dropped into the Children&#8217;s Hospital.\u00a0Among the players who came along were the Pakistan captain Inzamam-Ul-Haq, Abdul Razzaq, bowler Muhammad Asif, Rana Naveed and Muhammad Yousuf.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0Tina Clegg, service manager for the children&#8217;s hospital, was delighted with the visit. &#8220;We were delighted that representatives from the Pakistan Cricket Team took time out of their busy schedule to visit the children&#8221;, he said.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;The visit really cheered them up, especially after the disappointment of the England result the previous day.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Zuffar Haq, chair of the Leicester Patients Group, organised the visit.\u00a0He said: &#8220;A lot of the kids were upset after the England defeat in the World Cup so seeing the players made their day.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;The players were particularly interested in seeing the differences between Leicester&#8217;s hospitals and those in Pakistan.\u00a0They also thanked staff for the equipment that was shipped out to a hospital in Pakistan last year to help victims of the earthquake disaster.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOUNG patients were bowled over when members of the Pakistan International Cricket Team made a surprise visit to Leicester Royal Infirmary&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Hospital. &#13; The Pakistan players, who were in Leicester at the beginning of the month for a pre-Test match against Leicestershire,\u00a0dropped into the Children&#8217;s Hospital.\u00a0Among the players who came along were the Pakistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}