{"id":9469,"date":"2007-07-13T15:50:37","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T15:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/07\/13\/kabir-hits-out-at-england-snub\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:21:35","slug":"kabir-hits-out-at-england-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/13\/kabir-hits-out-at-england-snub\/","title":{"rendered":"Kabir hits out at England snub"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019ve been made a scapegoat, says Asian star <\/h3>\n
\"\"WORCESTERSHIRE paceman Kabir Ali has lashed out at England selectors after he was left out of a 30-man squad for the World Twenty20 in September.<\/strong> <\/div>\n

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The 26-year-old does not feature in new England coach Peter Moores\u2019 squad and believes he has been made a scapegoat for the team\u2019s failures. <\/div>\n

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He said despite proving his worth as an England player he has never been given the same chance as other players. <\/div>\n

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Kabir said: “If the squad was picked on merit, I should have been in a long time ago. I tick all the boxes, I can bowl, bat and field and I’ve shown England that.<\/div>\n

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“Okay, I had a couple of bad games against Sri Lanka in the one-day series last summer but I was hardly the only one.<\/div>\n

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“Other people had worse figures than myself but it seems I’m the guy who gets the blame when England lose.<\/div>\n

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“If I hadn’t done well in the past, I could understand it. But every time they give me a chance, I do well. I took five wickets as a 22-year-old in my first Test but they’ve never picked me again.<\/div>\n

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“I came back from South Africa as the leading wicket-taker in the one-dayers a couple of years ago and then they dropped me for the next game!”<\/div>\n

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But Kabir said he had not given up hope and would work hard to regain his place. <\/div>\n

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“If they told me what I needed to do for things to change then I might understand but I’ve heard nothing. I don’t know where to go or what to do.<\/div>\n

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“Perhaps it is the club I play for. Or perhaps I don’t fit in for some reason. But I seem to be the one that gets kicked out when anything goes wrong.<\/div>\n

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“All I can do is keep performing and hope I can embarrass the selectors.”<\/div>\n

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I\u2019ve been made a scapegoat, says Asian star WORCESTERSHIRE paceman Kabir Ali has lashed out at England selectors after he was left out of a 30-man squad for the World Twenty20 in September. The 26-year-old does not feature in new England coach Peter Moores\u2019 squad and believes he has been made a scapegoat for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469","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=9469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9469\/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=9469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}