{"id":1618,"date":"2016-06-27T21:38:16","date_gmt":"2016-06-27T21:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taand.com\/en\/?p=1618"},"modified":"2016-06-27T21:38:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-27T21:38:24","slug":"scotland-name-squad-to-face-afghanistan-in-one-day-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taand.net\/en\/?p=1618","title":{"rendered":"Scotland name squad to face Afghanistan in one day series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Preston Mommsen will lead Scotland once again in their two-match one day international series against Afghanistan in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Grant Bradburn names 10 of the Scotland squad who played at the ICC World Twenty20, where Afghanistan beat the Scots in the pool stage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every chance to play higher ranked opposition presents a great opportunity for Scotland,&#8221; Bradburn said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We look forward to taking on Afghanistan at The Grange.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After a lean period of national fixtures, the squad are looking forward to coming together for the first time since the ICC World T20.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite some local and County players being unavailable for consideration for this series, we have brought together a very strong exciting side on the back of impressive individual performances in domestic, Regional and County Cricket.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"sp-story-body__cross-head\"><strong>Scotland squad<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Preston Mommsen, Kyle Coetzer, Alasdair Evans, Brad Wheal, Calum MacLeod, Con de Lange, Craig Wallace, Mark Watt, Matthew Cross, Michael Leask, Richie Berrington, Safyaan Sharif, Ruaidhri Smith.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"sp-story-body__cross-head\"><strong>Afghanistan squad<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Mohammad Shahzad, Noor Ali Zadran, Javed Ahmadi, Asghar Stanikzai, Rahmat Shah, Mohammad Nabi, Samiullah Shinwari, Najibullah Zadran, Rashid Khan, Mirwais Ashraf, Gulbadin Naib, Dawlat Zadran, Hamid Hassan, Shapoor Zadran, Amir Hamza Hotak, Yamin Ahmadzai<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preston Mommsen will lead Scotland once again in their two-match one day international series against Afghanistan in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[318,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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