{"id":23704,"date":"2020-04-14T10:44:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T05:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=23704"},"modified":"2020-04-14T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T05:14:21","slug":"covid-19-former-pak-first-class-cricketer-zafar-sarfaraz-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=23704","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Former Pak first-class cricketer Zafar Sarfaraz passes away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former Pakistan first-class cricketer Zafar Sarfaraz has passed away after testing positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 50-year-old had been on a ventilator in the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Peshawar for the last three days, ESPNCricinfo reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarfraz has become the first professional cricketer to succumb to COVID-19 in Pakistan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarfaraz had made his debut in 1988 and he went on to score 616 runs from 15 first-class games for Peshawar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also managed to score 96 runs from six one-day games before retiring in 1994. He then took up the role of coaching both the senior and the Under-19 Peshawar teams in the mid-2000s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zafar was the brother of Pakistan international player Akhtar Sarfraz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Pakistan first-class cricketer Zafar Sarfaraz has passed away after testing positive for COVID-19. The 50-year-old had been on a ventilator in the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Peshawar for the last three days, ESPNCricinfo reported. Sarfraz has become the first professional cricketer to succumb to COVID-19 in Pakistan. Sarfaraz had made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}