{"id":14765,"date":"2024-10-25T15:06:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/?p=14765"},"modified":"2024-10-25T15:06:55","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:21:55","slug":"saif-ali-zaib-to-play-from-sudupaschim-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/saif-ali-zaib-to-play-from-sudupaschim-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"Saif Ali Zaib to play from Sudupaschim Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>English cricketer Saif Ali Zaib has been signed by Sudurpaschim Royals for the first edition of the Nepal Premier League. The 26-year-old left-arm all-rounder has a wealth of experience in county cricket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zaib, who played for Northants in the T20 home tournament of England last month, has also been playing regularly in the second division of the county. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After making his first-class cricket debut at 16 in 2015, he also played age-group cricket for England. He has scored 1200 runs at a strike rate of over 140 in his T20 career and has taken 12 wickets at an average of 33 while bowling part-time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Royals have already signed Scotland&#8217;s all-rounder Brandon McMallen as the first foreign player. Similarly, Australia&#8217;s World Cup winner former cricketer Brad Hodge is a major mentor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Jagat Tamata is the head coach of Sudurpaschim Royals, where Dipendra Singh Airee has been a marquee player. NPL will start on the 30th of November with the participation of 8 teams organized by the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English cricketer Saif Ali Zaib has been signed by Sudurpaschim Royals for the first edition of the Nepal Premier League. The 26-year-old left-arm all-rounder has a wealth of experience in county cricket. Zaib, who played for Northants in the T20 home tournament of England last month, has also been playing regularly in the second division [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[466,449],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14767,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14765\/revisions\/14767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14765"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bagmatitimes.com\/bt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=14765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}