{"id":40719,"date":"2022-01-17T15:15:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T06:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/17\/pakistan-women-cricket"},"modified":"2022-01-17T15:15:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T06:15:12","slug":"she-chopped-her-hair-off-pakistani-womens-struggle-to-play-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40719","title":{"rendered":"\u2018She chopped her hair off\u2019: Pakistani women\u2019s struggle to play cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In such a conservative country, young women often have to fight their own families first just to play the sport they love<\/p>\n<p>Bisma Amjad plays cricket. She aspires to play internationally and was picked for Pakistan\u2019s under-19 World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p>But when the pandemic came, because she was a woman, there was nowhere for her to practise, so she dressed as a man to play alongside male cricketers at \u201cgully cricket\u201d \u2013 the street game.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/jan\/17\/pakistan-women-cricket\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In such a conservative country, young women often have to fight their own families first just to play the sport they loveBisma Amjad plays cricket. She aspires to play internationally and was picked for Pakistan\u2019s under-19 World Cup squad.But when the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[499,646,1201,59,1203,78,60,61,203,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket","category-gender","category-gender-pay-gap","category-global-development","category-inequality","category-life-and-style","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-women","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40720,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40719\/revisions\/40720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}