{"id":1114,"date":"2024-01-03T13:02:47","date_gmt":"2024-01-03T13:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/uaes-fighting-spirit-in-t20-series-against-afghanistan-points-to-bright-future\/"},"modified":"2024-01-03T13:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T13:02:47","slug":"uaes-fighting-spirit-in-t20-series-against-afghanistan-points-to-bright-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/uaes-fighting-spirit-in-t20-series-against-afghanistan-points-to-bright-future\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE&#8217;s fighting spirit in T20 series against Afghanistan points to bright future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-1 jQghZF body-paragraph\">A series triumph over a Test-playing nation was always going to be a tough task but the manner in which the UAE took on Afghanistan in the three-match T20 series must fill the national team with hope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-1 jQghZF body-paragraph\">The UAE lost the first game by 72 runs but bounced back to level the series with a 11-run victory in the next game and then pushed the Afghans all the way before losing the decider in Sharjah on Tuesday by a close margin of four wickets, with nine deliveries to spare.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading__StyledHeading-sc-1tkwsg-0 eIuBSO\"><b>How the UAE performed<\/b><\/h2>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1jtxuc8-1 jQghZF body-paragraph\">After a forgettable first match in which the visitors posted 203 thanks to a century from Rahmanullah&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/sport\/cricket\/2024\/01\/03\/uaes-fighting-spirit-in-t20-series-against-afghanistan-points-to-bright-future\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A series triumph over a Test-playing nation was always going to be a tough task but the manner in which the UAE took on Afghanistan in the three-match T20 series must fill the national team with hope. The UAE lost the first game by 72 runs but bounced back to level the series with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-news-ar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theuaeweekly.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}