{"id":9254,"date":"2017-04-05T15:51:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T10:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=9254"},"modified":"2017-04-05T15:51:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T10:21:57","slug":"kashmiri-photo-journalist-wins-best-cricket-photo-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=9254","title":{"rendered":"Kashmiri Photo Journalist wins Best cricket photo award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>London:<\/strong> A Kashmiri freelance photographer has won the 2016 Wisden\u2013MCC Cricket Photograph of the Year competition for Saqib Majeed, a photojournalist of eight years, came across the scene on a visit to Nishat Bagh \u2013 one of the most famous Mughal gardens. Shooting from a vantage point of 35 feet up, Majeed was able to capture the entire game amongst the autumnal colours of the surrounding chinar trees.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Philip Brown\u2019s image of Bangladesh\u2019s Shakib Al Hasan batting against England during the First Test in Chittagong was one of two equal runners-up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Asanka Brendon Ratnayake was the other runner-up for his photograph of India captain Virat Kohli warming his hands near the flames as he took the field for a T20 International against Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Kohli, who enjoyed a hugely successful year, featured more than any other player in the competition entries.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As winner, Majeed is awarded \u00a32,000, while Brown and Ratnayake win \u00a31,000. All three images appear at the beginning of the colour section of the 2017 edition of Wisden Cricketers\u2019 Almanack.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London: A Kashmiri freelance photographer has won the 2016 Wisden\u2013MCC Cricket Photograph of the Year competition for Saqib Majeed, a photojournalist of eight years, came across the scene on a visit to Nishat Bagh \u2013 one of the most famous Mughal gardens. Shooting from a vantage point of 35 feet up, Majeed was able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9254","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\/9254","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=9254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9254\/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=9254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}