{"id":13962,"date":"2026-02-13T21:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13962"},"modified":"2026-02-13T21:35:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T01:05:34","slug":"cricinfo-saad-bin-zafars-unplanned-and-unexpected-journey-to-his-cricket-mecca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=13962","title":{"rendered":"[CricInfo]: Saad Bin Zafar&#8217;s &#8216;unplanned and unexpected&#8217; journey to his cricket Mecca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Deivarayan Muthu<\/p>\n<p>Saad Bin Zafar was born in Gujranwala in Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab and dreamt of becoming the next Wasim Akram. He even modelled his action on the left-arm swing king, but cricket took a back seat once he emigrated to Canada along with his family for his studies. A back injury then ended his fast-bowling dream altogether.<\/p>\n<p>Saad, though, refashioned himself into a left-arm spinner, and was good enough to be nicknamed &#8220;Vettori&#8221; in Canada&#8217;s club circuit. That&#8217;s when he realised that he was good enough to play professional cricket as a left-arm spinner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\">Full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Deivarayan Muthu Saad Bin Zafar was born in Gujranwala in Pakistan&#8217;s Punjab and dreamt of becoming the next Wasim Akram. He even modelled his action on the left-arm swing king, but cricket took a back seat once he emigrated to Canada along with his family for his studies. A back injury then ended his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[34,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13962"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13964,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13962\/revisions\/13964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}