{"id":9809,"date":"2009-12-10T16:58:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T16:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/12\/10\/waqar-younis-appointed-pakistan-bowling-coach\/"},"modified":"2009-12-10T16:58:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T16:58:53","slug":"waqar-younis-appointed-pakistan-bowling-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/10\/waqar-younis-appointed-pakistan-bowling-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Waqar Younis appointed Pakistan bowling coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Former bowler takes up second stint with national team<\/h3>\n<div><strong>FORMER fast bowler and captain Waqar Younis has been appointed as Pakistan&#8217;s bowling and fielding coach, the Pakistan Cricket Board has confirmed.<\/strong><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe PCB said he will take over the role for upcoming test and one-day series in Australia.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nIt will be Younis&#8217; second stint with the national team, having previously been bowling coach in 2006.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nPakistan is scheduled to play three tests, five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 game against Australia with the first test beginning from Dec. 26 in Melbourne.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nYounis, 40, took 373 wickets from 87 test matches before retiring in 2003. He also had 416 wickets in 262 one-day internationals, and formed a famous pace combination with Wasim Akram.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nHe also captained Pakistan in 17 tests and 62 one-day internationals.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former bowler takes up second stint with national team FORMER fast bowler and captain Waqar Younis has been appointed as Pakistan&#8217;s bowling and fielding coach, the Pakistan Cricket Board has confirmed.&#13; The PCB said he will take over the role for upcoming test and one-day series in Australia.&#13; It will be Younis&#8217; second stint with [&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-9809","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\/9809","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=9809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9809\/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=9809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}