{"id":66642,"date":"2019-05-29T09:14:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T23:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=66642"},"modified":"2019-05-29T09:14:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T23:14:52","slug":"west-indies-coachs-heart-lies-with-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/west-indies-coachs-heart-lies-with-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"West Indies coach\u2019s heart lies with Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>news desk<br \/>\nislamabad<br \/>\nAssistant coach for the West Indies cricket team Mushtaq Ahmed said on Tuesday that his heart lied with Pakistan.<br \/>\n\u201cMy heart is Pakistani but one should be professional. I should be sincere and loyal with the team which has hired me,\u201d Mushtaq Ahmed who was part of Pakistan\u2019s 1992 World Cup winning squad said.<br \/>\nThe former leg-spinner who also coached England said he would get an odd feeling when playing Pakistan, especially if England were winning.<br \/>\nProviding some insight on what to expect when West Indies play Pakistan, Mushtaq Ahmed said an attacking match would be seen.<br \/>\n\u201cWest Indies batting can hurt Pakistan. The four bowlers they have included are fast and can trouble Pakistan. They are a very dangerous team and will go for an attacking option against Pakistan\u201d.<br \/>\nPakistan and West Indies will open their ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 campaigns when the two teams face each other on May 31 at Trent Bridge in Nottingham.<br \/>\nPakistan winners of the 1992 World Cup are ranked sixth in ODI cricket, while West Indies won the tournament in 1975, 79 and are ranked eighth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>news desk islamabad Assistant coach for the West Indies cricket team Mushtaq Ahmed said on Tuesday that his heart lied with Pakistan. \u201cMy heart is Pakistani but one should be professional. I should be sincere and loyal with the team which has hired me,\u201d Mushtaq Ahmed who was part of Pakistan\u2019s 1992 World Cup winning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>West Indies coach\u2019s heart lies with Pakistan<\/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\/west-indies-coachs-heart-lies-with-pakistan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"West Indies coach\u2019s heart lies with Pakistan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"news desk islamabad Assistant coach for the West Indies cricket team Mushtaq Ahmed said on Tuesday that his heart lied with Pakistan. \u201cMy heart is Pakistani but one should be professional. 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