{"id":10283,"date":"2016-07-14T09:31:07","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T09:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/?p=10283"},"modified":"2016-07-14T09:31:07","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T09:31:07","slug":"i-cant-see-pakistan-winning-a-match-says-sir-ian-botham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/14\/i-cant-see-pakistan-winning-a-match-says-sir-ian-botham\/","title":{"rendered":"I CAN&#8217;T SEE PAKISTAN WINNING A MATCH SAYS SIR IAN BOTHAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ian-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Pakistan tour of England 2016, England and Wales Cricket Board, Pakistan Cricket Board, England vs Pakistan, ENGvsPAK, Test Cricket, Test, Cook, Misbah, Cook, Root, Stokes, Azhar, Misbah, Younis, Anderson, Broad, Stokes, Amir, Rahat, Yasir, Trevor Bayliss, Mickey Arthur\" width=\"712\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Former England&#8217;s legendary Test cricketer Sir Ian Botham said that the current England team is the best in the world right now. According to him, England deserves to be ranked no.1 instead of languishing in its present position at number four.\u00a0\u201cEngland are the best side in the world right now and certainly the most feared \u2013 they proved it against Australia and then beat South Africa on their own soil,\u201d Botham was quoted as saying by\u00a0Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan speedster Mohammad Amir had already sent some warning to the English batsmen with his performance in the warm-up match but Botham doesn\u2019t feel that they would be able to pull off a win against the hosts. \u201cIt will be an exciting series but I can\u2019t see Pakistan winning a match,\u201d Botham said.He is also happy to see Joe Root batting at no.3 and said that it is the position at which all the best players of their respective teams\u2019 bat. \u201cI\u2019ve no problem with Joe batting at three. All the best batsmen in world cricket bat at three \u2013 look at Ricky Ponting and Viv Richards,\u201d Botham said. \u201cJoe is the best batsman in the world right now, and I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll be fine with moving up the order,\u201d Ian Botham concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Former England&#8217;s legendary Test cricketer Sir Ian Botham said that the current England team is the best in the world right now. According to him, England deserves to be ranked no.1 instead of languishing in its present position at number four.\u00a0\u201cEngland are the best side in the world right now and certainly the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":10285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381,70,8,170,140],"tags":[194,867,109,1375],"class_list":["post-10283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amazing-facts-in-cricket","category-featured","category-interesting-stories","category-cricket-news","category-updates","tag-england","tag-engvspak","tag-pakistan","tag-pakistan-tour-of-england"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10287,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10283\/revisions\/10287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricbol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}