{"id":278410,"date":"2022-08-20T08:12:21","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T03:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=278410"},"modified":"2022-08-20T08:12:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T03:12:21","slug":"rizwan-appointed-uae-skipper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/rizwan-appointed-uae-skipper\/","title":{"rendered":"Rizwan appointed UAE skipper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> ABU DHABI, UAE<br \/>\nChundangapoyil Rizwan will replace Ahmed Raza as the United Arab Emirates\u2019 (UAE) skipper just ahead of the Asia Cup, it emerged.<br \/>\nLong-serving skipper Ahmed Raza has been relieved of the captaincy for the T20 format, United Arab Emirates\u2019 cricket board announced Friday.<br \/>\nMiddle order batter Rizwan will take over the role in the shortest format, while Raza will continue as captain of the ODI side.<br \/>\n\u201cThe committee believes, after extensive discussions, and following a detailed review of the side\u2019s recent 50-over performance, by providing the respective captains with a sole-format-focus, it creates a strong leadership succession plan, and encourages a singular commitment to fine-tuning strategic on-field components of the game.\u201d read a statement that accompanied the squad announcement.<br \/>\nRaza has been the UAE\u2019s most successful captain in T20Is, the Emirates winning two thirds of their fixtures in the format under his leadership, and successfully qualifying for the T20 2022 World Cup.<br \/>\nThrust into the role under difficult circumstances, Raza took over the captaincy from Mohammad Naveed in late 2019 ahead of the previous T20 World Cup Qualifier, immediately before the side was plunged into a corruption crisis that saw several senior players, including his predecessor, handed lengthy bans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABU DHABI, UAE Chundangapoyil Rizwan will replace Ahmed Raza as the United Arab Emirates\u2019 (UAE) skipper just ahead of the Asia Cup, it emerged. Long-serving skipper Ahmed Raza has been relieved of the captaincy for the T20 format, United Arab Emirates\u2019 cricket board announced Friday. Middle order batter Rizwan will take over the role in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-278410","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Rizwan appointed UAE skipper<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/rizwan-appointed-uae-skipper\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Rizwan appointed UAE skipper\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ABU DHABI, UAE Chundangapoyil Rizwan will replace Ahmed Raza as the United Arab Emirates\u2019 (UAE) skipper just ahead of the Asia Cup, it emerged. 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