{"id":8731,"date":"2016-02-01T06:37:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T10:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=8731"},"modified":"2016-02-02T09:48:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T13:18:44","slug":"u19s-lose-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/?p=8731","title":{"rendered":"U19s lose to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After two losses to test-playing nations the U19s took on an associate in their third match and must have had hopes of a first win. Those hopes were in tatters after 5 overs, when Canada were reduced to 13\/3. Abraash Khan (33) and Arslan Khan (38) staged a recovery and Canada managed to bat for 50 overs- but slowly, totalling just 147. The Afghans got off to a flying start and despite losing 6 wickets needed only 24.1 overs to reach the target. Miraj Patel led the bowlers with three wickets.<br \/>\nCanada thus finish bottom of Group B and will play in the 9th place play-offs on February 5. They will face Zimbabwe who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2016\/feb\/02\/west-indies-zimbabwe-mankad-u19-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\">lost in highly controversial circumstances<\/a> to the West Indies.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.espncricinfo.com\/icc-under-19-world-cup-2016\/engine\/match\/949737.html\" target=\"_blank\">CricInfo scorecard<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.icc-cricket.com\/news\/2016\/match-reports\/91993\/musa-shamsurrahman-star-for-afghanistan-u19\" target=\"_blank\">ICC report<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two losses to test-playing nations the U19s took on an associate in their third match and must have had hopes of a first win. Those hopes were in tatters after 5 overs, when Canada were reduced to 13\/3. Abraash Khan (33) and Arslan Khan (38) staged a recovery and Canada managed to bat for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731"}],"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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8731"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8736,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8731\/revisions\/8736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadacricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}