{"id":59760,"date":"2023-11-10T22:13:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T13:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2023\/nov\/10\/they-bring-us-joy-afghans-swept-up-in-cricketing-fairytale"},"modified":"2023-11-10T22:13:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T13:13:15","slug":"they-bring-us-joy-afghans-swept-up-in-cricketing-fairytale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59760","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They bring us joy\u2019: Afghans swept up in cricketing fairytale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Tigers\u2019 exceptional performances in India a ray of light in country beset by problems<\/p>\n<p>The wicketkeeper used to be a cattle farmer. The fast bowler laboured building mud walls to buy his first bat. The all-rounder was once a refugee in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past five weeks, all three have been part of a cricketing fairytale that has captured global attention and brought joy to one of the world\u2019s most repressed countries.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2023\/nov\/10\/they-bring-us-joy-afghans-swept-up-in-cricketing-fairytale\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Tigers\u2019 exceptional performances in India a ray of light in country beset by problemsThe wicketkeeper used to be a cattle farmer. The fast bowler laboured building mud walls to buy his first bat. The all-rounder was once a refugee in Pakistan.Over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1725,"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":[46,499,3008,61,203,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-cricket","category-cricket-world-cup-2023","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-taliban","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59760","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\/1725"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59761,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59760\/revisions\/59761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}