{"id":840,"date":"2014-02-04T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kashmir-today.net\/parvez-rasool-named-in-rest-of-india-squad\/"},"modified":"2014-02-04T18:21:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T18:21:00","slug":"parvez-rasool-named-in-rest-of-india-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"Parvez Rasool named in Rest of India squad"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/images1.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/kashmir.watch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/images1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">Srinagar, Feb 3: After yet another successful Ranji trophy season, J&amp;K all-rounder, Parvez Rasool has been named in the Rest of India squad for Irani Cup that will take on Ranji champions, Karnataka, at Bangalore from February 9.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Harbhajan Singh has been named captain of the team which includes 15-memebers.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;The squad includes, JK\u2019s top cricketer, Parvez Rasool, who will be seen leading the spin department along with Harbhajan and Amit Mishra.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;It is first time that Parvez has been named in the Rest of India squad and will play the match of Irani Cup against Ranji champions.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;\u201cI am happy to see myself in the list of Rest of India squad. It is a great chance for me to prove my credential before all important Indian premier League bidding process,\u201d Parvez said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;\u201cIf I am included in the playing-XI, I will try my best to get maximum out of this chance. I will try my best to derail the Ranji champions Karnataka,\u201d he said.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;About playing under the captaincy of Harbhajan, he said: \u201cIt is a dream come true. It gives me yet another chance to learn from greats like Harbhajan Singh\u201d.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Harbhajan&#8217;s inclusion as the captain means that he is still on the selectors&#8217; radar for the longer version of the game. Ditto for Gambhir, who has scored close to 600 runs this season and is likely to open with Punjab&#8217;s Jiwanjot Singh.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;The squad has Ranji Trophy&#8217;s top-scorer Kedar Jadhav (1223 runs) along with talented youngsters like Jiwanjot, Tamil Nadu&#8217;s Baba Aparajith, Maharashtra&#8217;s Ankit Bawne, Punjab&#8217;s Mandeep Singh, who have scored heavily in this year&#8217;s national domestic tourney.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Odisha&#8217;s Natraj Behera, who had a prolific season despite his state not qualifying for the knock-outs, was included in the side.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;The spin department will be taken care of by Harbhajan and leggie Amit Mishra while Jammu and Kashmir captain Parveez Rasool will be the third spinner.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;The only questionable non-inclusion was Himachal Pradesh seamer Rishi Dhawan, who ended as the highest wicket-taker with 49 scalps.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;However, the selectors have finally found a place for veteran Rajasthan seamer Pankaj Singh, who has been performing in the domestic circuit year after year. This year also, he has taken 39 wickets.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Varun Aaron is also there in the squad and the selectors would be interested in checking out whether he lasts in a rigorous five-day game where one needs to bowl a long second and even a third spell.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Bengal&#8217;s Ashoke Dinda and Railways&#8217; Anureet Singh have also made it to the squad on the back of some match-winning performances for their respective teams.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: Arial, 'Times New Roman', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;Squad: Harbhajan Singh (Captain), Jiwanjot Singh, Gautam Gambhir, Baba Aparajith, Kedar Jadhav, Ankit Bawne, Dinesh Kartik, Amit Mishra, Pankaj Singh, Ashoke Dinda, Varun Aaron, Parveez Rasool, Anureet Singh, Natraj Behera and Mandeep Singh.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar, Feb 3: After yet another successful Ranji trophy season, J&amp;K all-rounder, Parvez Rasool has been named in the Rest of India squad for Irani Cup that will take on Ranji champions, Karnataka, at Bangalore from February 9.&nbsp;Harbhajan Singh has been named captain of the team which includes 15-memebers.&nbsp;The squad includes, JK\u2019s top cricketer, Parvez [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1301,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/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=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}