{"id":9486,"date":"2007-10-05T12:49:14","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T12:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/10\/05\/inzamam-to-retire-from-international-cricket\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T16:22:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:22:35","slug":"inzamam-to-retire-from-international-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/10\/05\/inzamam-to-retire-from-international-cricket\/","title":{"rendered":"Inzamam to retire from International cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>South Africa Test will be his last<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"282\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/10\/InzamamulHaqRetirement1.jpg\"\/>INZAMAM-ul-Haq will retire from international cricket after the second Test against South Africa.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 37-year-old is calling it a day after a distinguished 15-year career in which he played 119 Tests for Pakistan.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He gave up his captaincy and quit one-day internationals following Pakistan\u2019s shocking early exit from the World Cup this year. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Since the tournament Pakistan have enjoyed an influx of younger players who led them to the Twenty20 final against India in South Africa last month. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Inzamam, who has been included in the second Test squad against South Africa, said he was keen to give way for younger emerging players. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I want to give way to youngsters and allow them centre stage,&#8221; he said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to stop any youngster&#8217;s progress. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;I have taken this decision after much thought and I realise that my presence in the dressing room could be a pressure on the younger players. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;So I have decided this is the best time for me to bid farewell to a game I have loved so much. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;It is a tough decision but it is the best for me and my country.&#8221; <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Inzamam will be hoping to leave his mark as Pakistan\u2019s leading Test run scorer after the South Africa test. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 37-year-old needs just 20 runs to bypass Javed Miandad\u2019s record of 8,832 runs. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He already hold his country&#8217;s record for runs in the one-day game with 11,739 in 378 matches. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa Test will be his last INZAMAM-ul-Haq will retire from international cricket after the second Test against South Africa. &#13; The 37-year-old is calling it a day after a distinguished 15-year career in which he played 119 Tests for Pakistan. &#13; He gave up his captaincy and quit one-day internationals following Pakistan\u2019s shocking early [&hellip;]<\/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-9486","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\/9486","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=9486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486\/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=9486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}