{"id":49536,"date":"2021-12-25T21:21:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T15:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/shaheen-was-nervous-shahid-afridi-reveals-how-he-helped-his-would-be-son-in-law-to-tackle-indian-batters-in-t20-world-cup-match\/"},"modified":"2021-12-25T21:21:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T15:51:02","slug":"shaheen-was-nervous-shahid-afridi-reveals-how-he-helped-his-would-be-son-in-law-to-tackle-indian-batters-in-t20-world-cup-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=49536","title":{"rendered":"Shaheen was nervous\u2019: Shahid Afridi reveals how he helped his would-be son-in-law to tackle Indian batters in T20 World Cup match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two months after Shaheen Afridi ripped\u00a0 through Indian batting line\u00a0 up,\u00a0 his would be father-in-law Shahid Afridi has revealed that he helped the pacer to overcome nervousness\u00a0 before the crucial match in T20 World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young pacer dismissed dangerous Rohit Sharma in the first over. He later took the wickets of KL Rahul and Virat Kohli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, former Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi has revealed that Shaheen was nervous before the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBefore the first game against India, Shaheen video-called me and told me that I\u2019m feeling a bit of pressure. We talked for about 11-12 minutes, I told him that god gave you the opportunity to go out and perform, you strike those wickets and become a hero. By god\u2019s grace, he did exactly that,\u201d&nbsp; Afridi told a private TV channel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shaheen bowled magnificently well throughout the tournament and played a key role in Pakistan\u2019s semi-final run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months after Shaheen Afridi ripped\u00a0 through Indian batting line\u00a0 up,\u00a0 his would be father-in-law Shahid Afridi has revealed that he helped the pacer to overcome nervousness\u00a0 before the crucial match in T20 World Cup. The young pacer dismissed dangerous Rohit Sharma in the first over. He later took the wickets of KL Rahul and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49535,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49536","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=49536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49536\/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=49536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}